Thai Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont suggested the introduction of Islamic law in the troubled south:
BANGKOK, Nov. 7 (Reuters) — Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont, in another significant gesture to Muslim insurgents in the far south, said Tuesday that Islamic law should be given a bigger role there.
He also said the only condition his post-coup government would impose for talks with the insurgents was that there should be no discussion of separation.
Mr. Surayud told the Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand that Shariah, or Islamic law, should be allowed in the area, where 80 percent of the people are ethnic Malay and Muslim.
Does the insurgency in southern Thailand revolve around Malay separatism/nationalism or the demand for Islamic law?
It might well be both but in my opinion, granting autonomy power to the Malay Thai states would be a better solution to a top down introduction of Islamic law by Bangkok.
[…] they do not respond to government campaigns and directives. So they have to be shot.
“I myself have killed, I would say, about 40,000 of them,” Mr. Lim said, working in spare time from his job as a Web site editor.
Alright. Alright. I quoted it out of context. It really was about crows culling. Still, it isn’t too different to Singaporean politics, is it?
Not to mention the barbaric act of killing itself…
