Thailand RoP Feels Left Out
Charles Johnson
Thu Jun 29, 2006 at 9:29 pm PDT • Views: 195
When the Organization of the Islamic Conference met in Azerbaijan, Islamic terrorists in southern Thailand tried to get their attention and sympathy—by launching multiple bomb attacks against infidels and their institutions: Thai militants seek Muslim world’s attention.
BANGKOK (Reuters) - A series of bomb attacks in Thailand’s Muslim south were launched by militants to coincide with a meeting of Islamic leaders in Central Asia next week, a top Thai security official said on Saturday.
Militants in the Thai southernmost region, annexed by largely Buddhist Bangkok a century ago, were trying by all means to have their struggle for a Muslim sultanate recognised by the Muslim community, said National Intelligence Agency chief Jumpol Manmai.
“They exploit all occasions, diplomatically or violently, to have their struggle recognised, especially by the OIC,” Jumpol told Reuters, referring to the 57-nation Organisation of the Islamic Conference.
A three-day meeting of OIC foreign ministers is due to start on Monday in Azerbaijan, where the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, Sudan and Cyprus will top the agenda, the OIC said in a statement. …
At least 60 small bomb attacks took place on Thursday and Friday in the southern provinces of Pattani, Yala and Narathiwat, killing at least two and wounding more than 30 people.
Security officials said they expected more explosions as more than 200 small bombs like those used in the past week had been smuggled from Malaysia into the region of 1.8 million people, most of them ethnic Malays who feel more connected to Malaysia than Thailand.
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