Well, once again reality bitchslaps the “peace in our time” approach as bombs rattle Thailand.
Thai authorities imposed extra security measures on Monday amid fears that unrest in the Muslim far south is spreading after bombs hit an airport, hotel and supermarket just outside the violence-hit region.
Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said the almost simultaneous Sunday evening blasts, which security officials blamed on Islamic militants, had raised concern across the Buddhist country.
The bombs, which police said consisted of dynamite and fertilizer and which were detonated by mobile phone, killed two people and wounded 60, seven critically, health officials said.
“This doesn’t only worry me. It worries the whole nation,” Thaksin told reporters.
I’m shocked, shocked to find that the origami birds of peace didn’t pacify the Islamists.