Gunmen in Bangladesh kill prosecutor

DHAKA, Bangladesh - Unidentified gunmen in southern Bangladesh shot and killed the prosecutor in the case of six Islamic militants who were convicted and executed in a bombing that killed two judges, a news report said Thursday.

Assailants shot Hyder Hossain in the head at close range as he was returning home from a mosque after evening prayers, the United News of Bangladesh agency reported.

Hossain, 53, prosecuted a case against the militants of the outlawed Jumatul Mujahedeen Bangladesh group who were charged in the 2005 bombing that killed two judges in Jhalakathi district, 75 miles south of the capital, Dhaka.

Another lovely part of the world, touched by the magic of the Religion of Peace.

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 Buddhist woman burned alive in Muslim south Thailand

YALA, Thailand, April 11 (Reuters) - A Buddhist woman was shot and burned alive in Thailand's violence-torn Muslim-majority south on Wednesday, prompting angry protests in front of visiting army chief Sonthi Boonyaratglin.

Watcharaporn Boonmak, 26, was ambushed by gunmen as she rode her motorcycle through a Muslim village in Yala, one of the three southern provinces roiled by three years of separatist insurgency in which more than 2,000 people have been killed.

"She might have been shot in the stomach before they set fire to her and her motorcycle," a Yala police officer, who asked to remain anonymous, told Reuters by telephone.

One of her relatives told Reuters that witnesses at the scene heard Watcharaporn, a garage clerk, screaming and crawling along the road for help but nobody dared respond for fear of reprisals.

And we all continue to apologize for our impressions that this religion is a violent, callous, and sadistic one.