A new wave of jihad has hit beleaguered Thailand. Brutal, vicious, relentless, and yet we hear nothing in the media. Here is something that will give you an idea of the scope of the conflict: Chai, our Thai correspondent, gave us a terrible rundown of the toll that the ongoing jihad war raging in that country took in 2013 alone:
In southern Thailand, devout Muslims accomplished the following in 2013:
- Committed over 1,500 terror incidents of all types
- Set off over 320 bombs in public places, stores, roads and schools.
- Launched 514 shooting attacks in schools, homes, businesses, highways and other public places.
- Committed 87 arson attacks in stores, schools, Buddhist temples and homes.
- Murdered 132 civilians
- Murdered 5 teachers
- Murdered 1 Buddhist monk
- Murdered double the number of Police and Military personnel compared with 2012
- Murdered 36 police officers
- Murdered 93 soldiers, rangers and marines
- Injured over 700 people, with hundreds suffering serious injuries that they will never fully recover from. Some of the “injured” are blind, or without legs or arms; or all of that. At least one child I know of has no lower jaw. Pretty girls no longer have faces. Once-strong and vibrant young men sit in wheelchairs. The word “injured” doesn’t do justice to the condition of many who survived and who sometimes wish they had not.
“Pregnant health official killed in Narathiwat gun attack,” The Nation, April 30, 2014:
A two-month pregnant health official was killed and her colleague wounded in a gun attack yesterday afternoon in Narathiwat’s Si Sakhon district.When the two women arrived on a motorbike at a market in front of Si Sakhon Hospital at around 2pm, four suspects on two motorbikes approached them before one opened fire at the victims before fleeing.Health official Jariya Phromnuan, 29, who was married to Si Sakhon precinct’s Pol Sub-Lieutenant Jessada Panyachotikul, succumbed to a gunshot wound in the head at Si Sakhon hospital. The other victim, 25-year-old health employee Pinyupa Wachirakijkosol, sustained a gunshot wound in right cheek and was later transferred to Pattani Hospital. Police believe insurgents might be behind the attack.Separately, a police bomb squad defused a 20-kilogram bomb that was planted behind a roadside garbage bin in Narathiwat’s Yi-ngo district at 1pm yesterday following a tip-off. Police suspect the bomb, which was to be detonated by a communication radio, had been planted to hit a team of security officials who were meant to use the route.
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