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| Family of four gunned down in southern Thailand |
| 2011-02-02 |
| A family of four has been gunned down beside a road in Yala province after they went missing on Sunday. The bodies of Prasit Boonlong, 43, his wife Manee Srikwan, 36, their daughter Rungrachanee Boonlong, 16, and their seven-year-old son Rungrapee Boonlong were found together near a roadside ditch at about 2:40 p.m. yesterday. They had all been shot. The family is assumed to have been killed on Sunday. Relatives of the family reported their disappearance on Sunday. They said the family had left their home in their pickup truck to take their daughter to school. The killing of the family is just one of a number of violent incidents across the lower South in the past day or two. A latex collector was shot dead on Monday while riding his motorcycle in Yala district at 9:50 p.m., and a fruit trader was shot in the leg while closing up his shop at a local market also in Yala at 10:25 p.m. Pol Snr Sgt Maj Preecha Thongsrimai was injured yesterday morning when a pickup truck carrying his squad was bombed on a road in Narathiwat province. Authorities yesterday arrested Pol Cpl Theerapat Thaweenart, 36, of Yaring police station in Pattani for being in possession of illegal weapons. Rifles, pistols, bullets, grenades, bombs, bomb parts and mobile phones were found in his vehicle. Suspected The cabinet yesterday responded to the continuous daily violence in the lower South by approving an extension of the emergency decree in the region for another three months. Only Mae Lan district in Pattani is not covered by the decree as it was lifted in the district on Jan 19. Meanwhile, army chief Prayuth Chan-ocha said the government would neither consider the |
| Posted by:ryuge |
| #1 Compare wid WAFF > [Lee Kuan Yew] SINGAPORE'S LEE: WE CAN'T INTEGRATE MUSLIMS. SINGAPORE can integrate Any + All variable Races + Religions EXCEPT ISLAM = MUSLIMS WHOM TEND TO INSIST ON STANDING APART FROM OTHERS. IOW, SEPARATE-BUT-EQUAL??? Other than the above, LEE > thinks MUSLIMS [as a Class]ARE BROADLY A-OKAY = SOCIOCULTURALLY ACCEPTABLE TO BE WITH. [US POST-CIVIL WAR "JIM CROW" SEGREGATION ERA here]??? GOOD SHARIA = WHAT "JIM CROW" SHOULD HAD BEEN??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-02-02 21:48 |