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...tear gas had cleared nine hours after the siege began, all 32 lay dead, their bodies lying in bloodied heaps on the stone floor of the mosque. It was not the only blood spilled that day. In an unprecedented outbreak of carnage that has stunned this predominantly Buddhist nation, 108 Muslims were killed after a series of apparently coordinated attacks on police posts and government installations across three provinces in the south. Five members of the security forces also died...
...ground reports, we believe the various groups have now come together to forge a stronger alliance against the Thai government." The best indication of this is the increasingly frightening trail of destruction the south has witnessed lately: since the start of the year, some 70 security personnel, teachers, Buddhist monks and other non-Muslims have been killed; hundreds of automatic rifles and nearly a ton of explosives have been stolen; and scores of government buildings, including schools, have been burned down apparently for teaching Thai language and culture (the Muslims traditionally speak Malay). "It is clearly recognizable that these groups...
...stalled payment of this tranche because of mismanagement of the economy. You quoted the Prime Minister as saying that "the President has said before that politics and power in Sri Lanka is a Bandaranaike family preserve." The President is emphatic she never said this. You wrote that "Sinhalese Buddhist mobs have burned or vandalized more than 100 Christian churches." This is the work of a small extremist group whose members are now in custody. They attacked mostly evangelist prayer houses, not churches. Eric Fernando Director General Policy Research and Information Unit, President's Office Colombo, Sri Lanka...
...China's most beloved politicians today is its female Vice Premier and Health Minister. In a nation ruled by men who often seem disconnected from their 1.3 billion subjects, Wu has made it her job to care about people. Some peasants believe she is a reincarnation of the Buddhist goddess of mercy, Kwanyin...
Construction of Shitennoji, one of the oldest Buddhist complexes in Japan, began in the year 593. One of its carpenters, Shigemitsu Kongo, traveled to Japan from the Korean kingdom of Paekche. Today, working from offices overlooking the temple, Kongo Gumi Co. is run by Masakazu Kongo, 55, the 40th Kongo to lead the 1,410-year-old company, believed to be the world's oldest family enterprise...