Pattaya Mail (Thailand)
Two groups of Islamic and Buddhist Khmer fishermen fought each other with knives, staves, shovels and beer and fish sauce bottles at Pratuang Pier on Chai Talay Road, Sattahip, on September 29, with four of the men being seriously injured.
A large team of police officers rushed to the scene of the fight, which had broken out amongst nearly 100 fishermen at the end of the pier. They found a fisherman named Cha, who had been stabbed with a knife and broken bottle, lying in a pool of blood. Three other injured men were taken on board a boat by their companions, who fled across the ocean with them.
The police officers called for a rescue team from the Rotchanathammasathan Sattahip Foundation, and the injured Cha was taken to the Intensive Care Unit at Queen Sirikit Hospital, Naval Medical Department.
Questioning a fisherman identified as Dam, from Patchanokmongkhol 88, police established that the two groups had been drinking on the pier when an argument blew up between the Islamic and Buddhist Khmers.
Pol Col Somthai Khamwat, superintendent at Sattahip police station, said that in the past this sort of fighting has occurred only in areas of Bangsarae and Samaesarn sub-districts, and the fact that it has spread to Sattahip Market is cause for concern. He asked for the owners of the boats to cooperate with the police to help restrain the fishermen, as they could pose a danger to the public.
A large team of police officers rushed to the scene of the fight, which had broken out amongst nearly 100 fishermen at the end of the pier. They found a fisherman named Cha, who had been stabbed with a knife and broken bottle, lying in a pool of blood. Three other injured men were taken on board a boat by their companions, who fled across the ocean with them.
The police officers called for a rescue team from the Rotchanathammasathan Sattahip Foundation, and the injured Cha was taken to the Intensive Care Unit at Queen Sirikit Hospital, Naval Medical Department.
Questioning a fisherman identified as Dam, from Patchanokmongkhol 88, police established that the two groups had been drinking on the pier when an argument blew up between the Islamic and Buddhist Khmers.
Pol Col Somthai Khamwat, superintendent at Sattahip police station, said that in the past this sort of fighting has occurred only in areas of Bangsarae and Samaesarn sub-districts, and the fact that it has spread to Sattahip Market is cause for concern. He asked for the owners of the boats to cooperate with the police to help restrain the fishermen, as they could pose a danger to the public.
5 comments:
This little snippet is misleading and should not be perpetuated as something news worthy. I cannot believe that a newspaper published this. It’s not only the writing and English are bad, but the author is uninformed.
There are Khmer, Burmese, Laos illegal migrant workers working in the Thai’s fishing industry in that area. The Muslims are mostly ethnic Thais (from the South and Malaysia too?), not Khmer. The Khmers are the migrants Khmer and Thai-Khmer in Chonburi.
But, from that piece, it sounded like 100 Khmer Moslems and Khmer Buddhists fishermen from Cambodia landed in Sattahip and are fighting each other.
Good, keep it coming anon@12:24AM. Thanks for sharing.
10/13/06
AK4AnetKhmer
This is purely Thai-Buddhists propaganda to paint a very bad picture of Cambodian Buddhists as Muslim hater! But what the Thai Buddhists didn't know that there are Muslim population in Cambodia too and these Cambodian Muslim live in peace and harmony with Cambodian Buddhist.
The Thai Buddhists want to create another Muslim upraising in Cambodia like the one in Southern Thailand by the Thai-Muslim.
The Thai Buddhists must be crazy if they think they can succeed in organizing Cambodia-Muslim to attack Cambodian-Buddhists! Cambodian Buddhists have no common ground or any special relationship with the Thai Buddhists! Cambodian Muslim no need to worry about anything!
I had seen enough of Thai Buddhists in my life time and soon or later the KARMA will catch up with these Thai-Buddhists! The Thai-Muslim upraising in Southern Thailand is only the begining!
Re: Anon@8:26AM
Just one tiny problem Anon. It takes too long for the Karma law to kick in..let's say, NEXT LIFE? By then we may not be around to find out!!!
[juste un petit probleme Anon. Ca prends trop longtemps pour que la loi de Karma prenne place. Disons, prochaine vie?. Serons-nous la pour le voir?]
10/14/06
AK4AnetKhmer
To 7:27PM
No my dear, we don't have to wait until the next life and it is already here for the Thai-Buddhist!
From now on the Thai will never have peace and stability as it once did!
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