Thai Government "Origami" bombs Muslim South

[ShaneGR]

Oh, the humanity of it all! Too bad they missed.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6653449/

PANARE, Thailand - Around 50 Thai Air Force planes “bombed” the largely Muslim southern with paper birds on Sunday as a symbol of peace for the restive region where nearly 500 people have been killed since January.

Villagers stared into the sky awaiting the deluge of an estimated 100 million paper birds, one of which was signed by Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra and carried the promise of a scholarship or a job for the finder.

Children ran around in excitement in one village as the plane appeared several thousand feet overhead at the time promised, and although the unloading of the birds was invisible to the naked eye, the paper birds descended.

Unfortunately the wind blew them beyond the village.

“I’m really disappointed,” said 11-year-old Fatima Sulhong. “All I saw was the plane flying over.”

Thaksin’s bird campaign, just weeks ahead of a general election, caught the imagination of the predominantly Buddhist country, even in Bangkok where sympathy for the Malay-speaking south is limited.

[Jack_DeLeon]

1. a thinly veiled threat...

On another forum I read someone claimed that.

Anywhere that they can drop paper birds they can most certainly drop real bombs.