Tuesday, January 09, 2007

Cult O' Teacher-and-Janitor-Haters Strikes Again

"GREAT SPIRITS HAVE ALWAYS ENCOUNTERED
VIOLENT OPPOSITION FROM MEDIOCRE MINDS" - Einstein
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Idealistic teacher, comatose for 8 months, passes away
SONGKHLA, Jan 8 (TNA) - A northern schoolteacher who has been hospitalised in the South, suspended in a coma for nearly eight months after being brutally beaten by her abductors in violence-plagued Narathiwat province, died Monday afternoon, according to Prince of Songkhla hospital director Dr. Sumet Pirawut.
The Thai government has been fighting violence involving insurgents in the three Muslim-dominant southern border provinces of Yala, Pattani and Narathiwat since early 2004.
As the death toll in the conflict rises--it has now claimed over 1,900 lives so far -- local teachers, mostly Buddhists, have been targeted by the insurgents who regard them as a primary symbol of the Buddhist culturally-oriented central government system.

As many as 110 schools have been burned and 71 schoolteachers, administrators and other staff have been killed by suspected militants since the attack on an army camp in Narathiwat in January 2004 set off a renewed anti-government insurgency.(TNA)-E001
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Update: Villagers torch health officeAbout 100 villagers torched a health centre in Pattani province in the South on Tuesday afternoon, and insurgents shot and killed a school janitor in Yala, as violence in the region escalated again.About 100 villagers, most of them women, gathered on the Sai Buri-Raman Road in Bango Village of Raman district at noon to call on police to release Sama-ae Jeha, who was arrested a few days earlier. Police set up a roadblock about a kilometre away from their station to prevent the protesters from blocking the road. At that point, the angry villagers set fire to the two-floor health centre.
In Yala, insurgents killed the janitor of a school in Bannang Sata district in a drive-by murder, while the man was taking his daughter to school.Police said the victim was Sutthichai Koongnakmorakot, 48, a staff member at Bannang Sata Intrachat school. He was shot multiple times in the neck, hands and arms by insurgents firing from a motorcycle.
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