AP: 8 dead in Thailand passenger van attack

[ellisonz]

8 dead in Thailand passenger van attack

By SUTIN WANNABOVORN, Associated Press Writer 2 hours, 23 minutes ago
BANGKOK, Thailand - Suspected Muslim insurgents hurled a bomb at a commuter van in Thailand's restive south Wednesday and then opened fire on its Buddhist passengers, killing eight of them execution-style, police said.

Two other people — a passenger and the driver — were injured in the morning attack and hospitalized with gunshot wounds to the head, said police Lt. Kitti Mankhong, a duty officer in the Yaha district of Yala province, where the violence occurred.

Suspected insurgents bombed the van as it slowed into a curve in the road, Kitti said. Armed with assault rifles, the attackers first shot the driver in the face and then opened the side door of the van and fired at each of the passengers, he said.

"Everyone was shot in the head at close range, execution style," Kitti said.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070314/ap_on_re_as/thailand_southern_violence;_ylt=Avwg3LXDVX_gV9.gEZIJ.sEBxg8F

Great, just great...:puke:

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[ellisonz]

3. It's P-E-A-C-E fool.

There has been a separatist movement in Pattani since at least the 1930s, but under successive Thai military regimes it was firmly suppressed. During World War II, when Thailand under the nationalist regime of Field Marshal Phibunsongkhram was an ally of Japan, Tengku Mahmud Mahyuddin, a prominent Pattani leader who was the son of the last Raja of Pattani, allied himself with the British in the hopes that should the allies win, Pattani would be granted independence after the war. After the war, there was an attempt to establish a "Greater Malay Pattani State" (Negara Melayu Patani Raya), but the British gave this movement no support and hopes of an independent Pattani were shattered.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Thailand_insurgency

You don't know jack and don't care to know, rather you wallow in your own ignorance, with your 5th grade education, ha-ha.

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[Phrogman]

4. We're getting a lot of the foreign expats moving out of Thailand

moving over here to the Philippines. Lots of new westerners on the streets in town here.
Huge influx of foreigners. Good for the P.I., bad for the Thais.
PM,
Negros

[ellisonz]

5. Got any comments on this story? (below)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=2766661

AP: U.S. lawmakers told of Philippine murders (Military killing activists)

I don't know what to make of it.

The above: this thread busted 2 freeper sleepers, one with atrocious spelling, and of course a rabid hatred of Islam.

[Amused Musings]

6. Regardless,

these brutal attacks targeting civilians are horrifying and I have a hard time mustering any sympathy for them.

Incidentally, much of my family lives in Thailand. They tell me that in recent years, Saudi Ministries have radicalized many of the insurgents in militant forms of extremist religion.

[ellisonz]

7. True...I'm against all acts of violence against innocents.

And no man or woman can judge who is an innocent or not including Imams or Baptist preachers.

From what I can gather the coup has in no way stemmed the violence...fire doesn't put out fire.

At some point there will be a "mutually hurting stalemate" and there will have to be some sort of peace settlement.

If I wasn't concerned I would not have posted this...thank you for your comments.