Today another beheading in Thailand

Discussion in 'Politics & Religion' started by Arnie, Apr 17, 2007.

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    Beheadings, killings and bombings continue. Religion of peace at its best! In fact its the 28th beheading.

    Insurgents behead Buddhist man
    (BangkokPost.com)
    Insurgents shot dead two Buddhist men in Narathiwat late Tuesday before beheading one of them early Wednesday, according to news agency AFP.The two men, aged 50 and 51, were killed in an ambush. The younger man was decapitated, police said.He was the 27th person who was beheaded in the restive Muslim-majority South since 2004.
    Insurgents also detonated at least five bombs at power transmission poles in the province late Tuesday. The attacks did not cause any blackout.
    Police investigated the scenes early Wednesday, and a high-ranking police officer was critically injured when he stepped on a bomb hidden at a transmission pole located on Narathiwat-Tak Bai road.
    Pol Col Noppadon Pueksomon, deputy commander of Narathiwat Provincial Police, stepped on a 10-kilogramme bomb hidden underground. The blast cut his left arm and left leg. His head was also hit by the blast.
    He was rushed to a hospital in Songkhla province.
    The 27 beheadings
    27. 18 April 2007: Two Buddhist men aged 51 and 50 shot and killed around midnight in Narathiwat province; the younger man was beheaded.
    26. 11 March 2007. Insurgents raid a construction camp, firing into a group of 15 Burmese workers. Three are killed, one is beheaded after the murder.
    25. 07 March 2007, 58-year-old Buddhist rubber tapper Sathit Thong-in shot and killed, beheaded and body burnt on a side road near an Islamic school in Yala. His head is not found.
    24. 09 Feb 2007 72-year-old rice mill owner Juan Khaewthongprakham killed at his mill in Kok Pho district, Pattani province. Head removed from murder scene, and not immediately found. Note on the body claims it is retaliation for a bombing of a Muslim store the previous night, with no casualties.
    23. 01 Feb 2007 45-year-old Buddhist ice cream vendor shot three times on his way to sell ice cream at a Pattani city school. Head left beside his tricycle
    22. 14 Jan 2007 38-year-old rubber tapper Pin Khotchathin was found at a rubber plantation in tambon Tasae in Yala’s Muang district
    21. 19 Nov 2006 NOTE: A Buddhist man was shot and killed in Yala, and almost decapitated. It was not clear why the head was not actually removed from the body.
    20. 12 Oct 2006 Burmese labourer nicknamed Yao, near the prawn farm where he worked at Nong Chik district, Pattani province. Four men seized him, killed him and beheaded him in front of his 19-year-old daughter.
    19. 7 Mar 2006 Abdulaziz Japakiya, 41, Muslim rubber worker, Yala province.
    18. 2 Jan 2006 Four-man army patrol ambushed in Bannangsata district, Yala province. Army Special Forces Sgt Somjit Lorsaeng, 35, was captured, killed and beheaded.
    17. 22 Nov 2005 Anek Ngernmoon, 31, garbage fee collector (brother is a policeman). Villagers found Anek’s head in a fertiliser sack on the side of a road in Nongjik district, Pattani province. His torso was found 3km away.
    16. 3 Nov 2005. Jeerawat Manurat, 36, scrap-metal dealer from Nakhon Phanom. Body found in Thapong village of Yaring district, Pattani province. (This was the night of the Eid Al-Fitr eve bombings in the southern provinces)
    15. 14 Oct 2005. Song Fangpetch, 66, cattle herder, Mayo district, Pattani province, killed while taking his cattle to a field. Note on body again: “You kill innocent people, I will kill you.” (Bangkok Post notes: He had joined a demonstration to denounce terrorists last week.)
    14. 4 Oct 2005 (Ramadan eve). Unidentified man, around 50, found on Sa-eh-Khororamae road in Ban Chohsipoh, Krong Pinang district, Yala province. Note on body said: You have arrested innocent people from the village. I have killed innocent people in return.
    13. 25 July 2005. Eakasak Visetsuwannaphum, 29, son of a policeman, in Sai Buri district, Pattani province.
    12. 6 July 2005. Sampan Onyala, a policeman, 43, shot and beheaded in Pattani province.
    11. 30 June 2005. Surin Somchit, water company employee, shot, wounded and decapitated near his office in Rangae district, Narathiwat.
    9 and 10. 27 June 2005. Jad Suwanchatree, 52, and his wife Serm, 51, on their way to tap rubber.
    8. 23 June 2005. Lek Pongpa, 34, travelling clothes seller from the North, shot twice and decapitated in a teashop in Narathiwat province.
    6 and 7. 20 June 2005. Unknown Lao man and wife, farm workers.
    5. 16 June. Kamol Chuneth, 65, Buddhist, Pattani.
    4. 7 June 2005. Boonjan Saiphet, 59, rubber tapper, Yaha district, Yala.
    3. 8 Nov 2004. Kaew (real name unrecorded), 60, plantation labourer, Changpeuk village, Narathiwat.
    2. 1 Nov 2004. Jaran Torae, former assistant village leader (poo yai baan), 58, shot and decapitated at Sukhirin district, Narathiwat province.
    1. 29 May 2004. Sieng Patkaoe, 63, Buddhist rubber tapper, Narathiwat province. Note on body claimed murder was revenge for police arrests of innocent Muslims.

     
    Arnie, Apr 17, 2007 IP