Foreign newsman wounded in Yala
(BangkokPost.com, dpa) - Insurgents shot dead a Buddhist man and burnt his body in an increasingly used atrocity in Yala early Tuesday, before detonating a bomb at police responding to the scene, wounding four people including a foreign photographer.
Police said they were informed of the charred body at around 6.30 a.m. so they rushed to the scene in Muang district. The man was found to have been shot and his motorcycle was also found to have been burnt.
When they arrived at the scene a bomb exploded on the roadside, slightly injuring three police men and Australian photographer Philip Blenkinsop.
“We were lucky that there were no scraps of metal in the bomb,” said Yala Police Lieutenant Colonel Salawudh Wongderm.
Violence has plagued southern Thailand, predominantly muslim. The Thai government is downplaying the religious component to the ongoing violence. That seems to be the what every country does.
Meanwhile, the violence continues, has continues for CENTURIES and is continuing to worsen. It’s impossible to deal with a problem until you identify what the problem is. As they say in medicine, diagnosis is everything.
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hi there, i like your blog (for some reason it ends up in my inbox once in a while), but can you stop referring to the violence in southern thailand as jihadism?
the violence down there is quite complicated, and it’s hard to assign a motivation to it (since no one ever claims responsibility for it or makes any public statements about it) but it doesn’t really seem to be a jihad. most analysts would say it’s much more about political and social freedom than a holy war. these people just happen to be muslim.
can you stop referring to the violence in southern thailand as jihadism
Political and social “freedom,” or the desire to implement Islamic law/an Islamic ruler? Sounds like jihad to me.