5 Years Later
ELDERLY CHINESE FARMER DISARMS BURGLARS WITH BLOWPIPE
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Beijing – A farmer in the remote province of Qinghai on the Tibetan plateau disarmed two222Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqPmMq5zvNS
burglars with a blowpipe. The elderly farmer in his 70s was awakened from his222Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYtkBVqdBbK
sleep in the middle of the night from sound coming from his kitchen. Using a222Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTcGL4nSDnb
blowpipe, he disabled both burglars as they were scrounging around his home.222Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxxqpIdO1Ra
The darts used had a powerful tranquilizing drug used on animals. When asked222Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0BrBsgs5zI
how he acquired the blowpipe, he said he instinctively knew how to make the 5-foot222Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkEMqpcNkoS
long blowpipe out of bamboo. He was not taught the trade. A blowpipe is a222Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsMNg51omYm
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 to222Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMSOK4jh22J
knock down two burglars?” Cheng asked Hiang as she came into the office during222Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuMG3A7QiB4
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 agenda222Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFiCHiMLe1F
today?”
They discussed the topics of the day that would potentially appear in the paper222Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoKCclHaWNA
tomorrow.
But the story stuck in her mind: the blowpipe is a weapon indigenous to Borneo in the222Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjUmNwxon1I
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 4222Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ7XC8YjClC
years ago after she had printed an article of Nur in the Singapore Times. The222Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNweJI7rBc5
article was an account of her search of the special forces officer over 6 years222Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9PkVsSwdO7
culminating in her visit to the Etajima Naval Academy where she witnessed his222Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqnzYDIaAW1
death on video.
The retiree had a rank equal to a Lt Col in the Singapore Armed Forces when he was with222Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ8Uco3IzUE
China’s People’s Liberation Army. Lt Col Shang claimed he was a captain when he222Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡipStx3ujnC
was attached to the Intelligence Department of the PLA. He said he recognized222Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj1yu2aVz7E
Major Nur as the prisoner he was tasked with keeping watch over in 2051. She222Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ15EfpniE5g
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 the222Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfKk80ErK0T
South China Sea. But he couldn’t remember anything from his past. Maybe he was222Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYqPOK5nryf
faking it. We couldn’t be sure. So we kept him for 5 months asking the same222Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5MGrSR5eFb
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. He222Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgGuPg6QfIu
was a high priority target and they wanted him alive. They pulled him out of222Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUFUyNjMHmG
the water and applied CPR.”
“I saw he was in the water for 20 minutes his head submerged. How could anyone be222Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1JbeUx6ngJ
resuscitated after being in the water for 20 minutes?”
He shrugged. Hiang eyed him as he answered the questions. He seemed sincere. And what good222Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrwMiW0FczU
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 comfort222Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS6oCzzq0o7
and good food. But he couldn’t remember. After 5 months he was sent back to the222Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRFN5ql3Cs3
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,222Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW1TVLfXSH9
nor for that matter anywhere in the internet. And Nur had that tattoo on his222Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡanVWKaoWgA
left arm. However most US Navy Seals graduates do this kind of stuff, as a kind222Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrVmBKMPiBq
of badge of honor. So it wasn’t unique nor conclusive.
She tried to get corroborating evidence from other sources including through Gen Sofi’s222Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh3H9qVjP6k
successor. But there was none. It was a dead end. And now this article about a blowpipe in the Tibetan plateau far from222Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJUsHB3XU9i
its place of origin. If Nur was alive he would be in his 70s, the age of that222Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEZ3s8Wez8x
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 have222Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHlrYR5B0SZ
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 that222Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwuchFWy4BE
possibility.”
And Jenny, one of her Senior Journalist, went on a trip to Qinghai.
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