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    Default Who Will Bang Their Heads If Malaysia And Thailand Build A Border Wall

    Whilst Americans have been discussing a wall on the Mexican border, Thailand and Malaysia have been doing the same in an attempt to keep out Muslim rebels.

    Prime ministers from Malaysia and Thailand have started to discuss building a wall along their land border to control rebels that have vexed Bangkok for decades. Thai junta leader Prayut Chan-o-cha and Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak broached the topic last week at an annual consultation, leaving doors open to more talks. Border walls and other fortifications are nothing new. Eastern European countries are working on theirs to stem migration from Syria. The United States and Mexico have fortified much of the 3,141 km (1,951 miles) between them to discourage illegal northbound immigration. A wall can feasibly be done. But it’s unclear how many people would bang their heads against a wall along the 640 km-long Thai-Malaysia border.


    Members of a bomb squad inspect the site of a motocycle blast in front of a school by suspected separatist militants in the Takbai district of Thailand’s restive southern province of Narathiwat on September 6, 2016.

    A well-guarded wall would make it easier to quell the violent Muslim-backed insurgency in southern Thailand. Separatists in four southern provinces had killed 6,500 people and injured 12,000 over the decade to 2015, according to figures in the Bangkok Post. The border matters because militants in one elusive group called Runda Kumpulan Kecil flee to Malaysia after bombings, arson and murders in Thailand, according to the Terrorism Monitor. Since 2004, Thai authorities have “continually alleged that militants have crossed over into Malaysia after conducting attacks,” the Monitor’s 2007 report says.

    These types would find it harder to sneak over the notoriously porous land border as they do now and instead line up at approved checkpoints with everyone else. Thailand may be asked to pay for most of the wall as it benefits them more, says Thitinan Pongsudhirak, director of the Institute of Security and International Studies at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok. “Such a wall would allow authorities on both sides to better manage and control migration flows,” he says. “Thailand would have more interest in having such a wall to manage its southern insurgency and therefore may be expected to foot much of the bill.”

    If the two sides can work out the bill, their wall would also stop a certain amount of border trade in oils and rubber, analysts say. Malaysia is Thailand’s biggest trading partner, with exports and imports worth $22 billion per year, according to online resources directory ThaiWebsites.com. But most of that trade passes through legal channels that would not be hindered by a wall. A wall might stop no one.

    The Great Wall of China worked only until the 13th century when Mongols reportedly bribed a sentry to pass it. Thailand and Malaysia enforce sea borders on either side of their land border near the Indo-Chinese peninsula’s isthmus, as well, and no one’s talking about a wall there. “Migrants would still find alternative outlets by sea and through corruption, loopholes and border trade along the wall,” Pongsudhirak says. “The ultimate efficacy of such a wall is doubtful.”

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    the various walls do work, there is lots of downsides -but they do the job

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    There has been a low level war going on for decades in Southern Thailand.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Milagro View Post
    There has been a low level war going on for decades in Southern Thailand.

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    ^ appreciate your posts on things like this, it's just never covered in the US press.

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    What sin has Malaysia committed against Islam? Do they support Israel? Have they set up an empire in the Middle East. Did they invade Iraq?

    Walls don't work. They're silly.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Darth Hussein Omar View Post
    What sin has Malaysia committed against Islam? Do they support Israel? Have they set up an empire in the Middle East. Did they invade Iraq?

    Walls don't work. They're silly.
    The three Thai provinces bordering Malaysia have a high Muslim population and there is a separatist movement there that wants to breakaway from mainly Buddhist Thailand. It never really gets reported much in Western media but many thousands have died.

    http://www.smh.com.au/world/the-war-...26-gha6aa.html

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    Quote Originally Posted by anatta View Post
    ^ appreciate your posts on things like this, it's just never covered in the US press.
    There is much that goes on in the world that is missed by Western media.

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    I thought Islam was a religion of peace.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Irish View Post
    I thought Islam was a religion of peace.
    Yet next door in Burma it is the Buddhists that are victimising Muslims, that doesn't get reported much either.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Milagro View Post
    Yet next door in Burma it is the Buddhists that are victimising Muslims, that doesn't get reported much either.

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    that one I've heard about,,but I think it's more about political or economic power ( or something?) lol

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    Quote Originally Posted by Milagro View Post
    Yet next door in Burma it is the Buddhists that are victimising Muslims, that doesn't get reported much either.

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    Oh ya I always hear about that Buddhist terrorism...

    And good. Muslims haven't done shit to stop islamic terror, and mostly support it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Irish View Post
    Oh ya I always hear about that Buddhist terrorism...

    And good. Muslims haven't done shit to stop islamic terror, and mostly support it.
    You are not very bright, are you?

    http://time.com/4405678/burma-myanma...uslim-wirathu/

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    Quote Originally Posted by anatta View Post
    the various walls do work, there is lots of downsides -but they do the job
    LOL Oh the way in which people just bullshit themselves.

    If history has shown one thing quite clearly and convincingly, that all such walls have failed.

    You want to spend your money on something that will fail go ahead but don't ask me to spend my tax dollars on something for which there is a mountain of evidence that it would fail because your a coward and a bigot.

    Why don't you try addressing the underlying causes of the problem instead? Or is that too much work or require to much courage and tolerance?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Milagro View Post
    You are not very bright, are you?

    http://time.com/4405678/burma-myanma...uslim-wirathu/

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mott the Hoople View Post
    LOL Oh the way in which people just bullshit themselves.

    If history has shown one thing quite clearly and convincingly, that all such walls have failed.

    You want to spend your money on something that will fail go ahead but don't ask me to spend my tax dollars on something for which there is a mountain of evidence that it would fail because your a coward and a bigot.

    Why don't you try addressing the underlying causes of the problem instead? Or is that too much work or require to much courage and tolerance?
    fuck you for calling me a coward and a bigot. Their is nothing bigoted about maintaining borders -without them
    there isn't any sovereignty - it's just a blob on the map.

    The wall around San Diego has worked well - i'll look for documention if you doubt. But it's reduced illegal crossing substantially.
    Likewise the West Bank Wall cutting thru Palestinian lands has brought terrorism to a virtual stop into Israel.
    There are knife attacks, but the regular previous attacks are way down.

    And this is not to say walls don't have problems - I personally do not think an entire physical walls the way to go -
    rather I'd use a series of fences/ and towers in many place.
    But physical barriers are very effective in what they do.

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