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 two216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLRupImqDVf
burglars with a blowpipe. The elderly farmer in his 70s was awakened from his216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5NaNETaBO7
sleep in the middle of the night from sound coming from his kitchen. Using a216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8CaDM2itk7
blowpipe, he disabled both burglars as they were scrounging around his home.216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx9ODG0kdWe
The darts used had a powerful tranquilizing drug used on animals. When asked216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfOQSN6vG3M
how he acquired the blowpipe, he said he instinctively knew how to make the 5-foot216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh6oTEeM0Fx
long blowpipe out of bamboo. He was not taught the trade. A blowpipe is a216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ04Xen3ZtbY
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 to216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKwHKdbwSvC
knock down two burglars?” Cheng asked Hiang as she came into the office during216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGC69GwoXxy
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 agenda216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ64YHVvvoeI
today?”
They discussed the topics of the day that would potentially appear in the paper216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi2rsc5OFmT
tomorrow.
But the story stuck in her mind: the blowpipe is a weapon indigenous to Borneo in the216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1UEbQl9dQl
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 4216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjFH7rQH3rs
years ago after she had printed an article of Nur in the Singapore Times. The216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI2YClVwRjF
article was an account of her search of the special forces officer over 6 years216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1eJ8ibJhTS
culminating in her visit to the Etajima Naval Academy where she witnessed his216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTepU0UNhy5
death on video.
The retiree had a rank equal to a Lt Col in the Singapore Armed Forces when he was with216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm7xvgIKQBQ
China’s People’s Liberation Army. Lt Col Shang claimed he was a captain when he216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGHePVOIcgc
was attached to the Intelligence Department of the PLA. He said he recognized216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqksMNEqhRa
Major Nur as the prisoner he was tasked with keeping watch over in 2051. She216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI58fymxcIq
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 the216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCRfE1Iuyeb
South China Sea. But he couldn’t remember anything from his past. Maybe he was216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFj1SdYMezD
faking it. We couldn’t be sure. So we kept him for 5 months asking the same216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡteJzhdS0Qv
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. He216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE3iWu8iM0H
was a high priority target and they wanted him alive. They pulled him out of216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaOx0qNIsvx
the water and applied CPR.”
“I saw he was in the water for 20 minutes his head submerged. How could anyone be216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡegfN6xyjIG
resuscitated after being in the water for 20 minutes?”
He shrugged. Hiang eyed him as he answered the questions. He seemed sincere. And what good216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfVwUcCqE3g
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 comfort216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMl2rL4OdjV
and good food. But he couldn’t remember. After 5 months he was sent back to the216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKJTS4xev5m
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,216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk8g3QmQU9E
nor for that matter anywhere in the internet. And Nur had that tattoo on his216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjwAtf9Igt6
left arm. However most US Navy Seals graduates do this kind of stuff, as a kind216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8RxS9CZ2B4
of badge of honor. So it wasn’t unique nor conclusive.
She tried to get corroborating evidence from other sources including through Gen Sofi’s216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD5XUgkqh8G
successor. But there was none. It was a dead end. And now this article about a blowpipe in the Tibetan plateau far from216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdyP5Y9JElP
its place of origin. If Nur was alive he would be in his 70s, the age of that216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ33Wr7w3ZZ
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 have216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0v0I39gxX6
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 that216Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUL6BuG3ke2
possibility.”
And Jenny, one of her Senior Journalist, went on a trip to Qinghai.
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