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2005-07-23 Southeast Asia

The usual suspects vow fight against Thailand emergency law

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Posted by Seafarious 2005-07-23 04:57|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Article: "Terrorists, the insurgents are a very small number and yet they are able to prolong and increase their activities because of people's support," he said. "Now, if you continue to intimidate the people with this law which will make intimidation legal, you will see no end to the insurgency."

This is demonstrably wrong. Thailand has had long-running Communist and Muslim insurgencies that it has suppressed for decades. The Communist one died when the Chinese stopped funding it in the 1970's. The Muslim one died when they killed or captured most of the firebrands. And emergency laws far more draconian than the current ones were in place then.

Posted by Zhang Fei">Zhang Fei 2005-07-23 07:11|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2005-07-23 07:11|| Front Page Top

#2 How about air-dropping more origami into the South? heh

Posted by Grush Shomogum2379 2005-07-23 08:17|| 2005-07-23 08:17|| Front Page Top

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