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KillerFlix
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Two police killed in Yala bombings
BANGKOK, Thailand (Reuters) -- Thailand's cabinet passed emergency laws on Friday giving Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra the power to tap phones, censor newspapers and detain suspects without charge to tackle rising violence in the Muslim far south.
The "Emergency Powers Law" replaces localised martial law already in place in the three southernmost provinces, where more than 800 people have died in the last 19 months. It brings responsibility for security directly into the PM's office.
"In the past seven days there have been signs that the situation will escalate," Deputy Prime Minister Wissanu Krea-ngam told reporters after an emergency cabinet meeting prompted by a coordinated set of attacks on Thursday evening in the provincial capital of Yala.
"The last straw that prompted us to impose this law is what happened at seven pm (1200 GMT) in Yala," he said.
In one of the most dramatic episodes of the southern unrest, suspected Muslim separatists set off a series of bombs, bringing down pylons outside electricity sub-stations and plunging the town into darkness for an hour.
Two policeman were killed and 23 people injured in the ensuing chaos, as the militants went on a shooting spree in the normally quiet town of 30,000 people around 1,100 km (690 miles) south of Bangkok and near the Malaysian border.
The violence continued on Friday, with a small bomb blast at 11.30 a.m. injuring four people in Yala, and unidentified gunmen shooting dead two teachers in neighboring Narathiwat province.
The new law allows Thaksin to stop the sales of newspapers and magazines deemed "threatening to national security or causing public anxiety", according to a draft seen by Reuters.
During Thursday's blackout in Yala, militants on motorcycles fired at random and tossed Molotov cocktails into shops and houses, police said.
Bombs hit a newly opened cinema complex, a hotel cafe, a karaoke restaurant and a convenience store almost simultaneously.
The militants scattered spikes on roads around the city in an attempt to hinder the movement of security forces.
The government of Yala province, of which the town is the capital, appealed to people to stay at home as 1,000 soldiers and police were deployed.
Five policemen and three "bandits" were seriously wounded in the clashes, Public Health Minister Suchai Charoenrattanakul told Channel 9 television.
Police said six suspected militants were captured.
Only six people were still in hospital on Friday morning, Suchai said.
Dramatic attack
The havoc, which lasted about an hour, was one of the most dramatic attacks in the latest bout of violence against the government of overwhelmingly Buddhist Thailand in a region it annexed a century ago.
The concerted raids caught security officials by surprise.
"Our intelligence is very poor. We must improve it," Deputy Yala Governor Winyu Thongsakul told a Bangkok radio station.
Security officials knew power sub-stations were vulnerable to militant attacks, but only those in the city were guarded, not those in the outskirts.
Since the violence began in January last year, more than 800 people have been killed in the far south, once an independent Muslim sultanate where militants fought a low-key separatist war in the 1970s and 1980s.
The government already had imposed martial law on parts of the region, where Muslims speak a Malay dialect and many do not speak Thai at all.
At least 10 people have been beheaded in recent killings some top officials say have been inspired by Iraqi insurgents. Officials say thousands of locally-born people, many of them Buddhists, have moved out.
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Bangkok Girls : Meet Attractive Thai Girls
Posted on: 2:09 am on July 15, 2005
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DaffyDuck
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Let's hope they will clean house. I guess beheading monks, and going on a rampage is some sort of 'message of peace'.
I'd be interested in the kind of 'peace negotiations' that the governmnet will counter with.
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Bangkok Women : Meet Sensual Bangkok Women
Posted on: 3:26 am on July 15, 2005
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Evil Penivel
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The Muslim attacks in southern Thailand are truly terrible. Thailand has traditionally been one of the world's most tolerant societies in terms of religion. As long as there was no overt disrespect towards the Buddha, people were free to pursue whatever faith they chose. It's one of the few societies where people of different religions lived side by side in peace. That's often said of other countries, but it is seldom true. The extreme faith-based violence of the Islamists is a major threat to the Thai custom of religious tolerance that has endured for centuries.
While mainstream Muslims sects pay a certain amount of respect to Christianity and Judaism (the people of the Book), that respect doesn't extend to Buddhism or Hinduism because those religions are considered idolatry.. Remember the destruction of the monumental scultpture of Buddha by the Taliban in Afghanistan. It's the same blind religious hatred that is driving the extremists in southern Thailand.
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Kaffir and proud of it.
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Posted on: 5:06 am on July 15, 2005
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Socrates
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Quote: from Evil Penivel on 12:18 pm on July 15, 2005
The Muslim attacks in southern Thailand are truly terrible. Thailand has traditionally been one of the world's most tolerant societies in terms of religion. As long as there was no overt disrespect towards the Buddha, people were free to pursue whatever faith they chose. It's one of the few societies where people of different religions lived side by side in peace. That's often said of other countries, but it is seldom true. The extreme faith-based violence of the Islamists is a major threat to the Thai custom of religious tolerance that has endured for centuries.
While mainstream Muslims sects pay a certain amount of respect to Christianity and Judaism (the people of the Book), that respect doesn't extend to Buddhism or Hinduism because those religions are considered idolatry.. Remember the destruction of the monumental scultpture of Buddha by the Taliban in Afghanistan. It's the same blind religious hatred that is driving the extremists in southern Thailand.
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Kaffir and proud of it.
"Remember the destruction of the monumental scultpture of Buddha by the Taliban in Afghanistan"
Disgraceful ! They don't not believe in images. Only the WORD = their word and nobody elses. In many Muslim countries you cannot wear a crucifix. Orthodox or otherwise. Some tolerance? They would tear up the beautiful icons in an Orthodox Church ?
The World has a problem that will not go away. These fanatics are brain-washed.
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Posted on: 6:00 am on July 15, 2005
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dotcom
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As long as the brothers confine their bombings to their Muslim brothers in Yala & the deep south - I say go for it.
It's a shame Taksin always rebuilds their infrastructure after the bros destroy it.
At least the Saudi's had enough brains to go after the "infidels" on their home turf.
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Posted on: 6:25 am on July 15, 2005
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China Sailor
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The problem with Islamic Extremeists is not new but a continuing thing dating back prior to the Crusades. I remember stories of my Grandfather telling how he fought the Moros in the Southern Phillipines in the early 1900s.
The most ironic thing about the recent violence around the world was that Mohammad would have never got Islam off the ground if he were not given sanctuary by the Ethiopian Christians for over a decade. It seems that after Allah spoke to him everyone in his own country wanted him dead. It was only the religious tolerance of the Ethiopian Christians that saved Islam.
(If you do not beleive this look up the history of Islam on the internet before you flame..)
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Posted on: 8:23 am on July 15, 2005
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shamas
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Islam man be the religion of peace but some of the dumb asses who practice it will never be at peace with anyone else.
The southern Thai Muslims who want to take over that part of the country and claim that they can not get the good jobs yat yat yat, phuck um. If they were any good at anything they would be making money and getting the good jobs.
The recent butchery just further shows how barberic and inhuman the extremists are. You can't deal with these people, you can't live with these people, you can execute them and dance on their graves.
Shamas O'Dognasty
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Posted on: 7:46 pm on July 16, 2005
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vox
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the "religion of peace," hmm? as opposed to the "religion of war," christianity ? which has killed far more people in out and out conquest of countless countries over the centuries than militant islam could ever hope to with a trillion suicide bombers??
not supporting the beheading of buddhist monks and teachers in the south, mind you, just keeping things in perspective...
vox
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Posted on: 9:17 pm on July 21, 2005
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DaffyDuck
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Quote: from vox on 9:29 am on July 22, 2005
the "religion of peace," hmm? as opposed to the "religion of war," christianity ? which has killed far more people in out and out conquest of countless countries over the centuries than militant islam could ever hope to with a trillion suicide bombers??
Me thinks you should check your numbers, and you will find that victims are pretty evenly distributed between the two.
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Posted on: 9:55 pm on July 21, 2005
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dirty guru
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I would feed most christians in big AMERICAN churches to the loins, before they appoint too many high court judges.
BAN sex outside marriage.
Abortions.
And outlaw other religions in the next 50 years
Lousianna is now pushing a bill to fine/jail girls showing G strings or underwear on short cut jeans
Thats gotta be an eating offence
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Posted on: 10:04 pm on July 21, 2005
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