Suspected insurgents behead village chief, kill 3 guards in restive southern Thailand
[The Associated PressPublished: December 18, 2007]
BANGKOK, Thailand: Suspected Islamic militants fatally shot four people Tuesday then beheaded one of them, a Muslim village chief, in Thailand's insurgency-wracked south, police said.
At least 10 insurgents opened fire on the chief's vehicle, killing him and three security guards, as they drove through Bannang Sata district in Yala province, said police Lt. Sompien Eksomya.
"The village chief was beheaded and his severed head was found near the crime scene and the rest of the bodies," Sompien said.
More than 2,600 people have been killed in Thailand's Muslim-majority southernmost provinces of Pattani, Yala and Narathiwat, and in some parts of neighboring Songkhla, since a long-simmering Islamic separatist insurgency flared in January 2004.
The Southeast Asian nation's population is about 90 percent Buddhist and many southern Muslims feel they are treated as second-class citizens.
【感想】
把人頭砍了，為了止恨、為了恐嚇？
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