Will the Islamophobia never end? "Militants hunt Buddhists in Narathiwat," from the
Bangkok Post, December 20 (thanks to
The Religion of Peace):
NARATHIWAT - A gang of Islamic militants burned down the
Bacho Tambon Administration Organisation office on Thursday, after
failing to find any Buddhist employees to kill.
Seven armed men stormed into the offices of the Bacho TAO in Bacho district shortly after noon.
Abdulwaha Dulayapinij, the office’s chief administrator, told the
police he and seven other employees were just leaving for lunch.
''One of them fired a gun into the air and ordered everyone to stay
put in Yawi [a Malay dialect spoken by Muslims in the South] and then
asked if there were any Buddhist Thais working here,” Mr Abdulwaha said.
“I told him there were none, and the outlaw was upset and said I had lied to him.”
Mr Abdulwaha then explained there was a female Buddhist Thai civil
servant identified as Suchada sae Li working at the TAO as a community
development officer, level 3, but she was on leave.
Upset with the answer, two of the gunmen emptied a five-litre
container of gasoline into the archive and equipment storage rooms, set
fire to it, and then fled the scene.
Staff, villagers and a local disaster relief team tried to put out
the fire, but the blaze spread quickly and destroyed the whole building.
Mr Abdulwaha said it appeared the assailants wanted to kill Ms
Suchada who was the only Buddhist official at the Bacho TAO, and had
planned to use the gasoline to burn her body....
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