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May 24, 2006

Thailand: Islamists Kill Muslims in South

The Bangkok Post states that yesterday shootings took place in Yala and Narathiwat provinces.

In Yala, two border patrol police, 30-year old Supoj Napasit and 30-year old Pradit Techa were shot at close range in a crowded market in Krong Pinang district at 10,45 am local time. They were attacked by four gunmen, who stole the two officer's pistols before fleeing. Five bystanders were also wounded in the attack.

In Si Sakhon district, in Narathiwat province two Muslim villagers were shot, one fatally, in a drive-by shooting carried out by two men riding a motorcycle in La-oh village. 20-year old Faisal Bueraheng was seriously injured, and 29-year old Arhib Jiridee was shot dead.

Early Monday, in Narathiwat, a Buddhist and his wife were shot as they drove on a motorcycle to the family's rubbere plantation. 69-year old Somboon Ratchsuwan was killed, and his wife was severely injured. They were parents of the director of a local school.

In Yala province, an unidentified Muslim rubber-worker was shot dead in a drive-by shooting.

Meanwhile, on Monday evening, the condition of Juling Pongkunmul, the Buddhist teacher who was beaten with her colleague Sirinat Thawornsuk by a Muslim mob, deteriorated, She had been in a coma since Friday May 19, after being beaten with sticks at her school in Ragae district, Narathiwat.

As we reported on Sunday, the women were attacked in their school on the orders of a woman, Karima Masaleh, in an attempt to force authorities to release her husband Muhamad Sapaeing Buari. He had been arrested earlier in the day, on suspicion of shooting at soldiers in a train station on April 12. He is also suspected of involvement in a fatal beating given out to two Thai soldiers on September 22 last year. Like that incident women were involved in the teachers' attacks in preventing access by security officers.

Juling's condition was said to be poor on Monday. Her eyes were not responding to light, even though her pulse was stable and there was no longer blood in her urine.

Her parents said: "We want our child to open her eyes. It doesn't matter whether she returns to normal or is disabled. We will be glad. We'll take good care of her for life. We just want her alive."

An exhibition of Juling's paintings was opened on Monday at Chiang Rai Vocational College, where she had trained to be a teacher. She loved to draw still-lives and cartoons. In April she had created 17 wall paintings for school day care centres in Pornpinit Pitthayakhan and Wat Phutthaisawan, before she decided to teach in Narathiwat.

Meanwhile, there have been more arrests of those who were involved in the mob attack upon Juling and her colleague. The Bangkok Post reports that two men and a woman were arrested yesterday in Gujinruepo village, scene of the attack. They searched five houses, and took away Navaree Ding, 23, Musariha Roseng, 26. The man, Niseng Ideuroh, 47, was the janitor at the school.

On Monday, seven others had been previously arrested, excluding the instigator, Karima Masaleh. In one of the suspect's houses yesterday, a leather handbag was discovered. This bag was believed to have been the property of one of the two beaten teachers.

According to the Nation, of the seven suspects arrested on Monday, five were women. So far, police have issued 19 arrest warrants in connection with Friday's attack.

Two prominent Muslims, Abdul Lohmae Jehsae and Abdul Rohman Abdulsamad, condemned the attack at the school. Jehsae is chairman of the Yala Islamic committee. Abdulsamad is chairman of the coordination centre of Muslims from the three Muslim border provinces of Yala, Pattani and Narathiwat. Abdulsamad said that as the teachers had gone to Narathiwat provine to help the children, the villagers should never have thought about attacking them. Jehsae said that the women teachers were innocent and represented goodness in society.

Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at May 24, 2006 12:32 PM

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