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 two224Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5ufo2p9P59
burglars with a blowpipe. The elderly farmer in his 70s was awakened from his224Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMPjmJ7Mrro
sleep in the middle of the night from sound coming from his kitchen. Using a224Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYn8ZFj6ZMV
blowpipe, he disabled both burglars as they were scrounging around his home.224Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGVNu9QWLWd
The darts used had a powerful tranquilizing drug used on animals. When asked224Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ6szR0Mqhp
how he acquired the blowpipe, he said he instinctively knew how to make the 5-foot224Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9mSroR2KKG
long blowpipe out of bamboo. He was not taught the trade. A blowpipe is a224Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTL04ALmk0s
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 to224Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ3bKTn4KdG
knock down two burglars?” Cheng asked Hiang as she came into the office during224Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaAfIlehQjR
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 agenda224Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtLYClE43HZ
today?”
They discussed the topics of the day that would potentially appear in the paper224Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWWYvolqctC
tomorrow.
But the story stuck in her mind: the blowpipe is a weapon indigenous to Borneo in the224Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2NCZ0mtlrX
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 4224Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjDWDf60Uyc
years ago after she had printed an article of Nur in the Singapore Times. The224Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHdIRuzVGHs
article was an account of her search of the special forces officer over 6 years224Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmvoqF7EP0P
culminating in her visit to the Etajima Naval Academy where she witnessed his224Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcLxoErsjtW
death on video.
The retiree had a rank equal to a Lt Col in the Singapore Armed Forces when he was with224Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsmGDcPWxia
China’s People’s Liberation Army. Lt Col Shang claimed he was a captain when he224Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEuB12cUXIL
was attached to the Intelligence Department of the PLA. He said he recognized224Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQtWJWVIovm
Major Nur as the prisoner he was tasked with keeping watch over in 2051. She224Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCoFYOeQ3OR
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 the224Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbBLCwozUzR
South China Sea. But he couldn’t remember anything from his past. Maybe he was224Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMP6ou2L24G
faking it. We couldn’t be sure. So we kept him for 5 months asking the same224Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCjaVvqisjJ
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. He224Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh81835IFyv
was a high priority target and they wanted him alive. They pulled him out of224Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr6g9zK4BkV
the water and applied CPR.”
“I saw he was in the water for 20 minutes his head submerged. How could anyone be224Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6k07d0J1YQ
resuscitated after being in the water for 20 minutes?”
He shrugged. Hiang eyed him as he answered the questions. He seemed sincere. And what good224Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRaHYe5DVhk
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 comfort224Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgIr4dFryWd
and good food. But he couldn’t remember. After 5 months he was sent back to the224Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb7MRInQ3jb
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,224Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPDp09gzOqP
nor for that matter anywhere in the internet. And Nur had that tattoo on his224Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZOkDzHfRcB
left arm. However most US Navy Seals graduates do this kind of stuff, as a kind224Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTn4XuuR8Au
of badge of honor. So it wasn’t unique nor conclusive.
She tried to get corroborating evidence from other sources including through Gen Sofi’s224Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkjGJNVs4fR
successor. But there was none. It was a dead end. And now this article about a blowpipe in the Tibetan plateau far from224Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9sYrOTd6eQ
its place of origin. If Nur was alive he would be in his 70s, the age of that224Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2rAMi7FMcp
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 have224Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuI95fscP9G
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 that224Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkRwsO6RWFD
possibility.”
And Jenny, one of her Senior Journalist, went on a trip to Qinghai.
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