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| Thailand: Another beheading |
| 2004-11-13 |
| Suspected Islamic militants beheaded a 60-year-old Buddhist labourer in Thailand's south. On Tuesday, the decapitated body of Kaew, 60, was found in a hut at the rubber plantation where he worked in Changpeuk village in Narathiwat province, said police Lieutenant Boonserm Klaewatee. The victims's surname was not available. Kaew's head had been slashed repeatedly, apparently by a machete, he said. Police found four handwritten letters with the body that threatened more attacks. "This is not enough," one them read. "More will be killed in revenge for the innocents that were killed in the Tak Bai massacre." Also... Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said the insurgents in the Muslim-majority southern provinces are arming themselves by stealing guns that the government originally handed out to local officials to fight the militants. On Tuesday, a Buddhist couple - Srinuan Chindai and his wife Korn - were slain by a motorcycle-riding gunman in the Banangstar district of nearby Yala province, said police Lieutenant Colonel Jakarin Bampensamai. Hours before, groups of three to four masked men stormed the houses of village security guards and chiefs in Pattani province and stole 10 shotguns, said police Major General Thanachareon Suwanno. Nobody was injured in the raid, he said. The insurgents, who have previously been thought to be poorly organised and often armed only with machetes and homemade bombs, have launched a series of raids this year on military installations and other places where weapons are stored. "They will use these stolen guns to kill the innocent people," Thaksin told reporters on Tuesday. "At least four or five innocent people have been killed every day. The lives of innocent people are in serious danger." |
| Posted by:Seafarious |