5 Years Later
ELDERLY CHINESE FARMER DISARMS BURGLARS WITH BLOWPIPE
June 5, 2086178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ62iPH15kEa
Beijing – A farmer in the remote province of Qinghai on the Tibetan plateau disarmed two178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOE2LUYhLPg
burglars with a blowpipe. The elderly farmer in his 70s was awakened from his178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ7hHEVIj9m
sleep in the middle of the night from sound coming from his kitchen. Using a178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbPoBTMStYh
blowpipe, he disabled both burglars as they were scrounging around his home.178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgvLZAEVEH5
The darts used had a powerful tranquilizing drug used on animals. When asked178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWcpZZTqiXw
how he acquired the blowpipe, he said he instinctively knew how to make the 5-foot178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwIQqw3CDO8
long blowpipe out of bamboo. He was not taught the trade. A blowpipe is a178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt9e2IPHvKc
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 to178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdhPbsefSo0
knock down two burglars?” Cheng asked Hiang as she came into the office during178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV9jPpjJHJG
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 agenda178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡreFAnHVkHg
today?”
They discussed the topics of the day that would potentially appear in the paper178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7oR5JulV0j
tomorrow.
But the story stuck in her mind: the blowpipe is a weapon indigenous to Borneo in the178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYuQ1EEAqm3
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 4178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJKwoQ5Gi8o
years ago after she had printed an article of Nur in the Singapore Times. The178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMEsFipz7Re
article was an account of her search of the special forces officer over 6 years178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzJffgvdOH5
culminating in her visit to the Etajima Naval Academy where she witnessed his178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFT5tTn6d9K
death on video.
The retiree had a rank equal to a Lt Col in the Singapore Armed Forces when he was with178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX7pRFsHoge
China’s People’s Liberation Army. Lt Col Shang claimed he was a captain when he178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNRxy2RR3ft
was attached to the Intelligence Department of the PLA. He said he recognized178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAHo3jH8mF7
Major Nur as the prisoner he was tasked with keeping watch over in 2051. She178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjOp3hojwoS
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 the178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWW52FDIQPr
South China Sea. But he couldn’t remember anything from his past. Maybe he was178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgOMJUM9Taf
faking it. We couldn’t be sure. So we kept him for 5 months asking the same178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHRr3uhcudk
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. He178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwjwUs6rtdO
was a high priority target and they wanted him alive. They pulled him out of178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYB1n1AGgQG
the water and applied CPR.”
“I saw he was in the water for 20 minutes his head submerged. How could anyone be178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4LhvMlMtZ4
resuscitated after being in the water for 20 minutes?”
He shrugged. Hiang eyed him as he answered the questions. He seemed sincere. And what good178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPQiiAdWBG7
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 comfort178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5pGIkGumR3
and good food. But he couldn’t remember. After 5 months he was sent back to the178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO2HOjcCh5N
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,178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQcWZ1dihcn
nor for that matter anywhere in the internet. And Nur had that tattoo on his178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr2Vn3AM4vx
left arm. However most US Navy Seals graduates do this kind of stuff, as a kind178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWQyKKnVHQ0
of badge of honor. So it wasn’t unique nor conclusive.
She tried to get corroborating evidence from other sources including through Gen Sofi’s178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiE2Ux7B3d3
successor. But there was none. It was a dead end. And now this article about a blowpipe in the Tibetan plateau far from178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxozWr8R0OB
its place of origin. If Nur was alive he would be in his 70s, the age of that178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVIoYzyJgWp
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 have178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9uJRF14rPZ
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 that178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdrWx6eMQKp
possibility.”
And Jenny, one of her Senior Journalist, went on a trip to Qinghai.
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