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Burn Them

This article distresses me. Actually, it irritates me. Actually, it pisses me off.

Thousands of dead bodies washed up by tidal waves in Phuket were posing a dilemma for authorities, with Western countries keen to preserve the remains of their nationals for identification and Thai health officials favouring quick disposal...

Officially, Bangkok has promised Western countries enough time for foreign medical experts to inspect the bodies.

"It is not true that Thailand has started to cremate or bury foreign tourists' corpses en masse," Foreign Minister Surakiart Sathirathai said.

"We will comply with their religious requirements. If we know the corpses are in advanced state of decomposition then we will keep them temporarily in body bags, caskets or containers," he told reporters.

At a meeting in Bangkok Wednesday, Thai Interior Minister Bhokin Bhalakula assured French Foreign Minister Michel Barnier that "no corpse will be cremated without DNA proof that it was a Thai national's," a French diplomat said...

On Thursday, Western medico-legal experts held talks with Thai authorities in Phuket on this very sensitive matter.

"Westerners favour cooperation and an international management of the bodies," one expert said.

A final decision is expected soon on transporting all bodies to one area, perhaps close to an airport, which is what Western experts wish, or to send foreign experts out to all the sites where bodies are stacked.

"I don't believe it is possible to put all the bodies in the same place," said one European diplomat, speaking on condition of anonymity.

Let me see. Europeans want to make Thai officials segregate bodies so that they can identify the remains and take them home for proper burial. What racist cocksuckers. It's okay for you Siamese and Tamils and Bengalis to mass bury or incinerate your family and neighbors, but please treat our victims with greater respect. It's also okay for us to force a massive epidemic from contagion in your backyard to assuage our sensibilities.

What filthy, virulent Eurotrash. I am reminded of the scene in Black Hawk Down when the soldier is told to reenter Mogadishu and he says "I can't. I've been shot." His captain snarls "We've all been shot!"

And that is it. Entire villages have been destroyed. This is carnage on a scale unimaginable save nuclear holocaust. To risk the abomination of mass disease because remains were not disposed of as quickly as possible is madness. We've all been shot.

I realize how callous this sounds, but we're talking about losing another fifty thousand souls to possibly preventable infection. Burn them. Burn them all.