5 Years Later
ELDERLY CHINESE FARMER DISARMS BURGLARS WITH BLOWPIPE
June 5, 2086152Please respect copyright.PENANAWSRDKlzVxx
Beijing – A farmer in the remote province of Qinghai on the Tibetan plateau disarmed two152Please respect copyright.PENANAVqhwmARPFE
burglars with a blowpipe. The elderly farmer in his 70s was awakened from his152Please respect copyright.PENANASbcttc9M63
sleep in the middle of the night from sound coming from his kitchen. Using a152Please respect copyright.PENANACuFL1rM22Y
blowpipe, he disabled both burglars as they were scrounging around his home.152Please respect copyright.PENANAP9OsxJsfK1
The darts used had a powerful tranquilizing drug used on animals. When asked152Please respect copyright.PENANAoS7Efmaa7U
how he acquired the blowpipe, he said he instinctively knew how to make the 5-foot152Please respect copyright.PENANAvCGuKVe0MM
long blowpipe out of bamboo. He was not taught the trade. A blowpipe is a152Please respect copyright.PENANAo5G7zd8Z03
weapon indigenous to tribes of Borneo, an island in the South China Sea. AFP.
“Did you read today’s report of a farmer in a remote part of China using a blowpipe to152Please respect copyright.PENANAco99Dm5CbC
knock down two burglars?” Cheng asked Hiang as she came into the office during152Please respect copyright.PENANAYXWHxZWYjQ
her usual start of the day.
“What of it?” she asked unconcerned.
“It strikes me as odd that this farmer on the Tibetan plateau knew how to use a blowpipe.”
“Tibetan plateau?”
Strange stories always catch her attention. She looked up the piece on her screen.
“I can see why it made the news,” she said. “Anyways, what do we have on our agenda152Please respect copyright.PENANA30ICQXczHH
today?”
They discussed the topics of the day that would potentially appear in the paper152Please respect copyright.PENANAOLwAmsxSKB
tomorrow.
But the story stuck in her mind: the blowpipe is a weapon indigenous to Borneo in the152Please respect copyright.PENANArdQL6XsnYV
South China Sea and the Kadazans, of whom Nur was a member, are from Borneo.
She recalled an interview she had of a Chinese retiree in Malaysia who had called her 4152Please respect copyright.PENANArV0ZgmI21L
years ago after she had printed an article of Nur in the Singapore Times. The152Please respect copyright.PENANACcjG9jx7YR
article was an account of her search of the special forces officer over 6 years152Please respect copyright.PENANA0Hv7KssPoY
culminating in her visit to the Etajima Naval Academy where she witnessed his152Please respect copyright.PENANAZyxU8mB39I
death on video.
The retiree had a rank equal to a Lt Col in the Singapore Armed Forces when he was with152Please respect copyright.PENANASiYyEUTU4w
China’s People’s Liberation Army. Lt Col Shang claimed he was a captain when he152Please respect copyright.PENANAVxSZyJZQcu
was attached to the Intelligence Department of the PLA. He said he recognized152Please respect copyright.PENANARn26MMVs9O
Major Nur as the prisoner he was tasked with keeping watch over in 2051. She152Please respect copyright.PENANAVUnyLXvCCc
had a meeting with him in Johor Bahru in a café in a busy Shopping Mall.
“How sure are you this person was Major Nur?” she had asked.
“He had a strange story. We knew he came from an observation post on an island in the152Please respect copyright.PENANAvLE8yif607
South China Sea. But he couldn’t remember anything from his past. Maybe he was152Please respect copyright.PENANAaDXnwxPJYA
faking it. We couldn’t be sure. So we kept him for 5 months asking the same152Please respect copyright.PENANAv9Fv0u2sQF
questions over and over again.”
“How did he survive that episode near Tioman island?”
“Apparently the Japanese had scuba divers in the water as soon as they spotted his body. He152Please respect copyright.PENANA6S4p7mkXjT
was a high priority target and they wanted him alive. They pulled him out of152Please respect copyright.PENANARSraadY8ui
the water and applied CPR.”
“I saw he was in the water for 20 minutes his head submerged. How could anyone be152Please respect copyright.PENANAKYc53htIiw
resuscitated after being in the water for 20 minutes?”
He shrugged. Hiang eyed him as he answered the questions. He seemed sincere. And what good152Please respect copyright.PENANA794d3uOf7e
would it do him to create a story like this?
“Where was he sent after the 5 months of interrogation?”
“We did everything, torture, drugs, even changed our tactics by providing him comfort152Please respect copyright.PENANAM9sWtHGO4B
and good food. But he couldn’t remember. After 5 months he was sent back to the152Please respect copyright.PENANAlOKGhUVX9N
POW department. Not sure what happened to him after that.”
“Any tattoos on him?”
“Yes, there was one, the US Navy Seals trident on his left arm.”
Hiang was startled. There was no account anywhere in her article of the trident tattoo,152Please respect copyright.PENANACYpXyUWeV4
nor for that matter anywhere in the internet. And Nur had that tattoo on his152Please respect copyright.PENANASwMtS4ZB3y
left arm. However most US Navy Seals graduates do this kind of stuff, as a kind152Please respect copyright.PENANA8sx9UXgNfM
of badge of honor. So it wasn’t unique nor conclusive.
She tried to get corroborating evidence from other sources including through Gen Sofi’s152Please respect copyright.PENANAPcvZX0CE7o
successor. But there was none. It was a dead end. And now this article about a blowpipe in the Tibetan plateau far from152Please respect copyright.PENANAtCnVrfkKUZ
its place of origin. If Nur was alive he would be in his 70s, the age of that152Please respect copyright.PENANAtFsP5wPEEP
elderly farmer.
“Let’s send Jenny to Qinghai,” Hiang said to Cheng a month later.
“What for?”
“I am intrigued by that blowpipe story.”
“You think there might be a connection with Nur?”
She nodded. “I was looking for corroborating evidence when the PLA officer claimed to have152Please respect copyright.PENANApfaKqqJ9Sb
seen Nur after the Tioman incident, and I think this is it.”
“Could someone be alive after been in the water for almost 30 minutes?” Cheng asked.
“Nur was especially fit and at the prime of his life. I wouldn’t discount that152Please respect copyright.PENANAlxhttjAgOJ
possibility.”
And Jenny, one of her Senior Journalist, went on a trip to Qinghai.
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