Posted by David Kopel:
Buddhists and Moslems arm against terrorists:
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2009_09_20-2009_09_26.shtml#1253564382
[1]StrategyPage, which is always one of the best websites for
information on military activities around the world, [2]reports on the
terrorist war going in southern Thailand:
The Moslem south is turning into the Wild West. There are more guns
per capita among the two million southerners, than anywhere else in
the country. The 20 percent of the southerners who are not Moslem
are particularly well armed, with shotguns, rifles, pistols and
even some automatic weapons. Most of the guns carried by
non-Moslems are legal, for defense against Islamic terrorists. But
many Moslems have legal weapons as well, also for defense against
Islamic radicals (who are increasingly violent against Moslems they
deem disloyal.) The police are slowly winning, as they have done in
the past. But Islamic radicalism is popular among many of the young
men, so the violence will continue for a while, despite the
opposition of most Thai Moslems. Thus violence has been increasing
in the south, with 27 bombings and eight arson attacks in the past
month. In that period, there were a hundred terrorist attacks,
which left 51 dead and 83 wounded.
References
1. http://www.strategypage.com/default.asp
2. http://www.strategypage.com/qnd/thai/articles/20090921.aspx
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