Thai Buddhist beheaded
Pastor Dale Morgan
Thai Buddhist beheaded *
08 Feb 2007 11:50:02 GMT
Source: Reuters
BANGKOK, Feb 7 (Reuters) - A 72-year-old Buddhist rice miller was
beheaded in Thailand's rebellious Muslim south on Thursday in an
apparent retaliation for a bomb attack on a village tea shop owned by
Muslims, police said. The man's head was not found and police said they
found severe cuts on his fingers, hands and shoulder at his village mill
in Pattani, one of the three largely Muslim provinces where 2,000 have
been killed in three years of separatist insurgency.
It was the third decapitation this year.
"This is revenge for what happened last night in Nakohn Nua," a message
left at the mill said in reference to the village where the bomb went
off, injuring no one, police said.
Nobody has claimed responsibility for the violence which has seen almost
daily gun and bomb attacks in the former sultanate annexed by Buddhist
Thailand a century ago.
Although the military-appointed government has embarked on a peace drive
in the Malay-speaking region since it was appointed after a September
coup ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, the violence continues.