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...under his baggy shirt is a .38-cal. revolver, and at home he keeps an assault rifle to protect his wife and teenage daughter. Boonserm is taking no chances. Two weeks ago, his friend Run Tulae, 59, was abducted from their remote village of Ai Ti Mung in troubled Narathiwat province. His decapitated corpse was found the next day. "I think he was still alive when they cut his head off," says Boonserm...
...people have been killed by unknown attackers in what Buddhists fear is an escalating campaign to drive them from southern Thailand. In response, Buddhists are arming themselves?and not just in the villages. Every Sunday a Thai businessman drives his armor-plated car to a navy firing range outside Narathiwat town, where he and other local Buddhists practice how to shoot. While a bank manager and a bookshop owner blast away with sleek Italian-made shotguns, the businessman?who doesn't want to be named?takes out a Walther PPK pistol and deftly peppers a target with bullets. "Want...
...what is apparently a campaign of vengeance for the Tak Bai killings. The militants are driving a wedge between communities that used to live in relative harmony. "When I grew up here, Muslims and Buddhists got on like brothers and sisters," recalls a monk at Ba Pai temple near Narathiwat. Today what both sides share is fear, paranoia and a simmering anger that the violence now threatens their homes. In the Buddhist village of Tung Kha, 54-year-old headwoman Penporn Suranatukul sits in the shade of a postcard-perfect temple, watching soldiers fill sandbags. Penporn lives in dread...
...rifles, and take turns manning checkpoints outside the village. They turn back any car or motorbike carrying Muslims, including those who have traded in the villages for decades. "We can't trust anyone anymore," says Sakarin Chanhon, 52, a member of the militia in Pukhaotong village in Sukarin district, Narathiwat, where two villagers were shot by unidentified militants early last month. "The enemy is all around...
...this year, and there's no end in sight to the violence. "We really wished to solve the problems by peaceful means," said Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra in a recent radio address. "But some people still use violent ways, so we have to use both ways." The name Narathiwat means "the residence of good people," notes a local tourist brochure. The good people of southern Thailand?Buddhists and Muslims alike?wait with growing desperation for protection from...