Violence and atrocities : massacre

Saturday, October 8, 2022

Massacre of children in Thailand in a knife and gun rampage, condolences pour in

It was a sad day for Thailand when a former police sergeant, discharged over drug allegations, shot and knifed children and staff in a daycare center. The assailant targeted the children, aged between two and five. He slashed them to death, and shot the adults. It happens to be one of the world's worst death tolls of children massacred by a single killer. The killer was facing trial on a drugs charge. The tragedy happened in Uthai Sawan, a town about 310 miles northeast of Bangkok, the capital of the largely Buddhist country. After committing the massacre, he left the daycare centre, went home and shot dead his wife and son before taking his own life. Families traumatised by Thailand attack cling to slain children's toys. The national police chief Damrongsak Kittipraphat said - "The reasons are probably unemployment, no money, and family issues," he said, adding that the attacker and his wife had had "longstanding problems."

Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-Ocha met the families of the victims. He lay flowers and observed a moment of silence in front of the centre. King Maha also Vajiralongkorn visited the hospital. The Vatican said Pope Francis was deeply saddened by the "horrific attack." He condemned it as an "act of unspeakable violence against innocent children." Incidentally, there have been earlier instances of death in schools in other parts of the world. In Norway in 2011, Anders Breivik killed 69 people, mostly teenagers, at a summer camp. Later, in 2012, it was the killing of 20 children at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown Connecticut. In 1996, the toll as of 16 at Dunblane in Scotland and 19 at a school in Uvalde, Texas, this year. As far as Thailand goes, it has strict gun laws but gun ownership is high when compared with some Southeast Asian countries. Moreover, illegal weapons are common, with many brought in from strife-torn neighbours.

#ISIS #Melbourne #AnzacDay #jihadists It may sound like fiction but it is a fact that a boy sitting in Blackburn had planned a terror attack in far off Melbourne on Anzac Day parade – it was to have been a massacre. The 15-year-old British boy had nearly succeeded but was apprehended in time.
He had been radicalized by ISIS and has now been sentenced to life in jail. While passing judgment, Judge John Saunders has told Manchester Crown Court that the youth remained a significant danger to the community.
This has been reported in foxnews.com dated 2 October 2015.

Judge Saunders has also indicated that some progress had been made to de-radicalize the youth who now becomes the youngest British to be sentenced for a terrorist related offence.
That macabre plot would send a shiver down one’s spine – it included decapitating a police officer, driving into a crowd with a car with an ISIS flag on the bonnet, shooting other police that would arrive on the scene and practicing decapitating a loner in the days leading up to the event.
It seems he would go to school and be turned away since he would not hand his mobile phone over. Then, he would spend the rest of his day sitting by a dam and communicate with jihadists across the world before going home and pretending he had been at school all day.
(Image courtesy wikimediacommons.org)

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Violence and atrocities

Saturday, October 8, 2022

Massacre of children in Thailand in a knife and gun rampage, condolences pour in

Thursday, October 8, 2015

Life imprisonment for 15-year-old British boy who plotted Anzac Day massacre in Melbourne