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| Southeast Asia |
| Muslim protests block roads in southern Thailand |
| 2007-04-29 |
| Angry Muslim villagers blockaded a road in Thailand's restive deep south for several hours on Sunday to protest the killing of a religious leader in a grenade attack on a mosque. The protest by nearly 100 Muslims, mostly teenagers, in the southern province of Pattani came a day after Samarn Usoh, 67, was badly wounded in the attack. He died later in hospital. Police blamed separatist insurgents for the attack on the mosque, which is adjacent to Pattani's historic Krue Se mosque where 32 militants were killed in a shoot out with troops and police three years ago. "Protesters closed the road which is the entrance to the village. Military officers watched from their checkpoint across the road," a police officer said. The protest lasted several hours and ended peacefully. In a neighbouring district in Pattani, about 100 villagers also blocked a road to protest the arrest of a Thai Muslim suspected to be involved in a roadside bomb that killed three soldiers last week, another police officer said. |
| Posted by:ryuge |
| #1 Time to put Operation Rachel Corrie into operation. |
| Posted by: Jackal 2007-04-29 23:42 |