Six Buddhists killed in Thailand's insurgency-plagued south

Interesting video [2009] although they try to give a balanced view ~ they quote Human Rights Watch saying that the Thai forces used heavy handed methods against the Muslim militants. What is worst is that when the Thai officials asked for either military training, equipment or financing to help control the uprising in the Muslim majority south ~ HRW spoke out against this US aid saying that they were helping a government that was repressing its people. The US response was they don't know what HRW was talking about. Let's be clear what those Muslim insurgents are doing down there is nothing short of ~ think about a local school in your area. These Muslims have been riding on motor bikes around schools and hacking up teachers with machetes. They have been beheading Buddhists monks.

Whereas HRW in order to raise funds attended a dinner or a series of dinners in Saudi Arabia [2009]. This is the place that whips rape victims. Imprisons and lashes 80 year old ladies, for receiving bread from 'unrelated' men ~ nephew of dead husband ~ knowing full well that the woman was hungry and been asking neighbors for food. HRW sat with them. And to prove their Islamo-cred they pulled out all their anti-Israel stuff. Their aim no doubt is to blame all the Islamic insurgencies around the world on Israel.


NARATHIWAT, Thailand, April 1 (Reuters) - Suspected Islamic insurgents shot dead six Buddhist villagers in Thailand's restive south on Thursday, police said, the latest attack in the troubled region bordering Malaysia.

The villagers in Narathiwat province were believed to have been ambushed, said police Colonel Sanit Suwanno. Two bodies were found in a pick-up truck and four were discovered in a hilly forest nearby, he added.

Ten policemen and soldiers were also wounded when a roadside bomb exploded as they were travelling to the scene of the shootings, police said.

More than 3,900 people have been killed in six years of unrest as ethnic Malay Muslims fight for autonomy from Thailand's Buddhist majority in the region just a few hours by car from some of Thailand's best-known tourist beaches.

Local Muslims largely oppose the presence of tens of thousands of police, soldiers and state-armed Buddhist guards in rubber-rich region, which was part of a Malay Muslim sultanate until annexed by Thailand a century ago.

About 80 percent of Thailand's three southern provinces of Pattani, Yala and Narathiwat are Muslim.

The violence has ranged from drive-by shootings to bombings and beheadings. It often targets Buddhists and Muslims associated with the Thai state, such as police, soldiers, government officials and teachers.