Religion of Peace Strikes Again in Restive Thailand
Charles Johnson
Fri May 11, 2007 at 9:20 am PDT • Views: 278
For a long while, mainstream media reports from Thailand claimed that the cause of the ongoing jihad violence was a mystery—“shadowy groups who never issue demands.”
But now they seem to have settled on the way to spin it. It’s resistance. The butchers are “fighting for an independent state.” 3 shot dead in Thai south.
NARATHIWAT, Thailand (AFP) - A Buddhist man was shot dead by suspected separatist militants on Thursday in Thailand’s restive south, police said, after two Muslims were killed overnight.
All three were killed in Narathiwat province in drive-by shootings blamed on southern militants who are fighting for an independent state.
In a separate incident in Pattani province, two soldiers were wounded in a bomb blast as they protected a group of Buddhist monks on their morning rounds to collect alms.
The violence followed a powerful roadside bombing Wednesday that tossed an army patrol truck into the air and killed all seven soldiers inside.
“Fighting for an independent state,” by beheading schoolgirls and burning people alive.
Frank says: