If you are a Brits, I can only conclude that you are a frog living in a well.
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http://www.bangkokpost.com/News/08Jul2005_news05.php
VIOLENCE IN THE SOUTHVILLAGERS APPEAL FOR HELP
Queen urges terrorised locals to stay united
POST REPORTERS
Her Majesty the Queen has expressed concern over the continuing violence in the
deep South and urged local people to find ways to protect their lives and their
communities.
Naphol Boonthap, deputy aide-de-camp general, said the Queen was saddened by the
plight of southern residents facing threats to their lives.
Local people in five villages where royal-initiated projects were being carried
out had lodged a complaint with Her Majesty saying they now lived in fear.
Insurgents carried out murderous acts to force locals to leave the land.
The Queen told local people to stay united and protect their communities, said
Gen Naphol. Projects such as weapons training for volunteers and self-sufficient
village schemes had been launched.
Education Minister Adisai Bodharamik yesterday denied the ministry planned to
buy pistols for teachers in three southern border provinces.
He said the ministry had no such policy. If the teachers wanted guns for
self-defence, the ministry would consider their requests on a case-by-case basis
and get the Interior Ministry to register their pistols.
He said he agreed with a proposal to equip teachers with bulletproof vests.
Schools in the region would be given at least three radio transmitters so
teachers could alert one another.
Violence continued yesterday, with an employee of a security agency's job
creation scheme shot and seriously wounded in an attack in Narathiwat, and a
local tea shop in Pattani set on fire.
Watcharane Chanchuangduang, 49, an employee under the Southern Border Provinces
Peace-building Command's job creation project, was attacked by two men on a
motorcycle while leaving a military base in Bacho district at 12.50pm yesterday.
He sustained serious gunshot wounds.
In Pattani province, a tea shop in Yaring district was set ablaze at 1am
yesterday. Nobody was injured.
Asae Mae-ae, shop owner and a community police volunteer, believed the attack
might be related to ongoing unrest.
Police and soldiers were still unable to find the head of a police officer shot
dead and decapitated in Pattani on Tuesday night. Pol Snr Sgt-Maj Samphan
Donyala was attacked in Yarang district. His attackers cut off his head after
shooting him, leaving his headless body at the scene.
On Wednesday, Rusalam Torlaema, 19, a former defence volunteer, was attacked by
two men on a motorcycle in Raman district at 7pm while riding a motorcycle to
his house. He was seriously wounded.
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