Police launch murder investigation as elderly couple gunned down in Pattani

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Police launch murder investigation as elderly couple gunned down in Pattani


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PATTANI: -- Police are investigating the double murder of a husband and wife in Pattani.

The attack took place at 6:45am in the Pulo Puyo area of the province.

Khaosod reports that the man, 79, and his wife 62, were travelling to the local market to sell pork when they were ambushed by a gang of gunmen who had been hiding out on the side of the road.

As the husband and wife approached in their Daihatsu Mira pick up truck, the gunmen, armed with M16 rifles, fired several rounds at the vehicle, killing the occupants instantly.

The gunmen then fled the scene.

Police are investigating a possible motive for the double murder.


-- 2015-10-08

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Three killed in two separate attacks in Pattani



PATTANI: -- A couple was shot dead by suspected militants as they were travelling in a pick-up truck on their way to the market in Kok Po district of Pattani province to sell fresh food on Thursday.

Police said that the four assailants, travelling in two motorcycles, laid in wait in the middle of a bridge. As the pick-up truck was approaching near, they opened fire with assault rifles killing the couple, Mr Suibee Chuchueykham and Mrs Nuansri Na-Takuapa, in the vehicle.

The assailants escaped with a wallet and a pistol of the victims

In Sai Buri district, a para military ranger was shot dead and his wife was slightly injured when a motorcycle pillion-rider suspected to be militant opened fire on them with a pistol.

The ranger, Apisit Mukda, 41, who was on vacation rode a motorbike with his wife riding on the pillion was on their way from home in Ban Lothu to their old house in the same district.

Another motorcycle approached the couple from behind and the pillion rider whipped out his pistol and shot at them several times. Apisit was fatally wounded and he was declared dead upon arrival at the district hospital while his wife was slightly injured.

Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/three-killed-in-two-separate-attacks-in-pattani


-- Thai PBS 2015-10-08

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Selling Pork in a Muslim area.............................now that's heavy stuff...................

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Buddhist couple shot dead in Pattani

PATTANI: -- A Buddhist couple were shot dead by Muslim insurgents on their way to sell pork at a fresh market in Pattani's Nongchik district early Thursday, police said.

Police said the couple's Daihatsu car was riddled with M16 bullets in the attack that happened on a bridge of the Yab-Yarang road in Tambon Pulohpuyoh at 5:50 am.

Police said Suibi Chuchuaykham, 69, and his wife, Nuansri, 62, were riding their car to sell pork at a morning market in Khok Pho when they were ambushed by four assailants.

The assailants also stole their cash and a pistol, police said.

Police said the two were once attacked two years ago on the a spot that was two kilometres away from the latest location of attack.

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/breakingnews/Buddhist-couple-shot-dead-in-Pattani-30270449.html

-- The Nation 2015-10-08

[realenglish1]

Would be the same in trying to sell pork in a Jewish area as well.

What did they expect ? A welcoming committee.

Sad they where gunned down but then look at the area> Muslims?

Notice that conflict on a global scale is in Muslim areas Not in too many christian or Buddhist areas.

Still have not figured out what is it that Muslims want except to make Jihad and kill .

[razer]

Just an armed group of criminals that, by chance, are Muslim.

Terrorism doesn't exist in Thailand.

[ggt]

Man 79, and his wife 62, were travelling to the local market to sell pork when they were ambushed by a gang of gunmen who had been hiding out on the side of the road.

Where is the outrage from the Muslim community? Why are they not gathering a militia to fight against this criminal activity born out of their own neighborhoods?

Passive compliance is a sign of acceptance of this criminal behavior...you all should be so proud of your legacy of death and destruction...

There can be no cause that can justify the callous and cowardly murder of innocent people of all ages...

Edited October 8, 2015 by ggt

[tominbkk]

Anti pork selling Muslims?

[Harveyg]

Would be the same in trying to sell pork in a Jewish area as well.

Really? That's what you think? Feh on you...

Still have not figured out what is it that Muslims want except to make Jihad and kill .

And you think "the same"? Must be an anti s... Go....

[casualbiker]

Would be the same in trying to sell pork in a Jewish area as well.

What did they expect ? A welcoming committee.

Sad they where gunned down but then look at the area> Muslims?

Notice that conflict on a global scale is in Muslim areas Not in too many christian or Buddhist areas.

Still have not figured out what is it that Muslims want except to make Jihad and kill .

I'm guessing they sold all types of meat and going on their ages have been for many years.. If Muslims don't want pork then don't buy it, don't kill the vendors just shop elsewhere.

I think the vast majority of Muslims actually just want to get on with their lives WITHOUT these religious nut jobs, probably the same as most people living in the Westboro area, Topeka, USA!

[Enoon]

Would be the same in trying to sell pork in a Jewish area as well.

What did they expect ? A welcoming committee.

Sad they where gunned down but then look at the area> Muslims?

Notice that conflict on a global scale is in Muslim areas Not in too many christian or Buddhist areas.

Still have not figured out what is it that Muslims want except to make Jihad and kill .

What most "ordinary" Muslims want is the same as what most "ordinary" Christians, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, you name it, want in the modern, materialistic world.

They will have been born into a religion, and will go along with it, taking part in the rituals (including, but not confined to, birth, marriage and death) without really caring or thinking about it.

They will spend most of their time working to pay for their families. When they're not working they want to watch TV (sport, soap operas, game shows, crime dramas - that sort of thing) Some of them don't like to sit around "doing nothing" in their leisure time and will actually partake in sport. Others have hobbies such as stamp collecting, fishing, snail-racing or model making. Some of them like to do voluntary stuff. Some of them like to hang out in coffee shops, in the village centre or around the sports fields where the "active" ones are doing their thing.

What they don't want to do is spend their time thinking about that old stuff they were taught about as a kid or forcing other people to think about that old stuff they were taught as a kid.

Things are pretty much the same around the world. (Sorry if this all sounds a bit dull)

But then along come the ones that aren't ordinary. They're really into that old stuff. We call them "extremists". I've never met any extremists so I can't tell you want they want, but I can tell what they do. They tell the "moderates" (the ordinary ones) that they have to join them, or help them, or look the other way, or...........die.

It's no good going to the "authorities" for help or protection, because for the most part they live in countries where the authorities are corrupt, ineffectual or may even be extremist themselves.

Easy choice to make isn't it?

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Obvious responses would be (and maybe some are being done already)

1. Surveillance: Monitor all preaching in mosques

2. Separation: Send three deep south provinces on their own with a statement something like: "It is time to go your own way. We will withdraw all the infrastructure we have built. And if you so much as raise a finger against Thailand, we will attack in retaliation for our own protection."

3. Immigration: No more Muslim immigration to Thailand

4. Tourism: Monitor all Muslim tourists and others visiting from Muslim nations

5. Education: Public education events in order to discern the differences between Islam and Buddhism - its founder's life, its scriptures and doctrines as found in the Koran, Hadith and Sira, its history and current situation.

The reason Buddhist culture and nations were destroyed in Pakistan, Afghanistan etc is that Buddhist nations didn't look Islam squarely in the face and combat it as became necessary.

No more ostriches.

While I do not approve of many of their tactics (e.g. violence and coercion) perhaps Thailand needs something more like Burma's militancy, better from non-monks of course.

Read politialislam.com