Word: suranatukul
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...Muslims and Buddhists got on like brothers and sisters," recalls a monk at Ba Pai temple near Narathiwat. Today what both sides share is fear, paranoia and a simmering anger that the violence now threatens their homes. In the Buddhist village of Tung Kha, 54-year-old headwoman Penporn Suranatukul sits in the shade of a postcard-perfect temple, watching soldiers fill sandbags. Penporn lives in dread of Islamic militants. "They want to chase the Buddhists out," she says, her eyes welling with tears. "We're just sitting here, waiting to be killed...
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