1000 Muslimahs Deceived By Thai Soldiers

THAILAND – The American troops sent on duty outside the country, such as in Vietnam (in the 60's), in Afghanistan, Iraq, always left behind social problems for the local people after the soldiers have returned to their home country.

The problems ended up being a burden that must be borne alone by the local families, in addition to also having to fight back the feeling of shame and disgrace. This happened in Southern Thailand where many Muslim women established intimate relationship with the non-Muslim soldiers until they get married and have children.

The source said, 1000 Muslimahs have been fooled by the Thai soldiers in charge of hunting down Islamic fighters in the Southern part of that 'Land of White The Elephant'. They were reportedly married to the Thai soldiers, after the Thai soldiers finished their duty, some were brought along but some were also left behind just like that.

A representative of the Human Rights organization concerned with the border issues in South Thailand, Chaiyong Maneerungsakul, said, the Muslimahs fall prey making relationship with the Buddhist soldiers sent on duty in that region.

There were members of the Buddhist army who fall in love with the local women who are Muslim and persuaded to marry them. Even though the soldiers changed religion (to Islam), but in the end it was just a fraud. According to Chaiyong, the story about Buddhist soldiers converting to Islam is an ordinary thing here.

“For them there is no hindrance, today Buddhist, tomorrow Islam and the next day return to Buddhism again, it is commonplace.”

If the soldiers completed the tasks in the South and moved to other regions, the Muslimahs just now would be confronted with the problem of culture shock, which in the end make them forced to return to the South again. Thus Chaiyong said as excerpted from the Bangkok Post.

The exposure of the issue of the 1000 Muslimahs was accompanied with the case of a video recording showing a local Muslim teenagers aged 16 who was harassed by the Thai Government soldiers.

The report stated, on 22nd January, a soldier known as Winai, had committed harassment in a location adjacent to a hospital near the army outpost. The abuse was committed in that quiet place while recorded by his friend, a government soldier named Yot.

The case was revealed after Yot distributed the vile recording which caused the victim's parents to complain to the authorities.

These incidents of sexual abuse and cases of Muslimah who became victims to the Buddhist soldiers who abandoned their wives and children, add to the suffering of the Muslims in the South which have been suffering for so long, since the country, where the majority of the populations are Muslim, is ill-treated by the Thai forces.