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 two244Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡItoNmWfDDe
burglars with a blowpipe. The elderly farmer in his 70s was awakened from his244Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTmYvBZXYJy
sleep in the middle of the night from sound coming from his kitchen. Using a244Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn9sYvS1mYU
blowpipe, he disabled both burglars as they were scrounging around his home.244Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡemNZlvUO6o
The darts used had a powerful tranquilizing drug used on animals. When asked244Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCRf0vvJ5B1
how he acquired the blowpipe, he said he instinctively knew how to make the 5-foot244Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKfrMFnlS3C
long blowpipe out of bamboo. He was not taught the trade. A blowpipe is a244Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM7YMTJeyAu
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 to244Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtPwlztPac5
knock down two burglars?” Cheng asked Hiang as she came into the office during244Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡquoUroWku2
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 agenda244Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQNVReKuZLC
today?”
They discussed the topics of the day that would potentially appear in the paper244Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo5lIDnpicq
tomorrow.
But the story stuck in her mind: the blowpipe is a weapon indigenous to Borneo in the244Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAOoMr8QROc
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 4244Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4k2BiyzoDE
years ago after she had printed an article of Nur in the Singapore Times. The244Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBoIUsPcHWW
article was an account of her search of the special forces officer over 6 years244Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrieRcbve13
culminating in her visit to the Etajima Naval Academy where she witnessed his244Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3ZiupM2qfZ
death on video.
The retiree had a rank equal to a Lt Col in the Singapore Armed Forces when he was with244Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFeF2AZbjGa
China’s People’s Liberation Army. Lt Col Shang claimed he was a captain when he244Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHdixMvyei0
was attached to the Intelligence Department of the PLA. He said he recognized244Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeWffdEkTGr
Major Nur as the prisoner he was tasked with keeping watch over in 2051. She244Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTnU8b8EgdM
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 the244Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡemmSzNQbEB
South China Sea. But he couldn’t remember anything from his past. Maybe he was244Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7QQ3gEc5Vg
faking it. We couldn’t be sure. So we kept him for 5 months asking the same244Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNCDCvWKf6g
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. He244Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQCgYwLkPfF
was a high priority target and they wanted him alive. They pulled him out of244Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1uF00Oa6dU
the water and applied CPR.”
“I saw he was in the water for 20 minutes his head submerged. How could anyone be244Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwQvxynhhWj
resuscitated after being in the water for 20 minutes?”
He shrugged. Hiang eyed him as he answered the questions. He seemed sincere. And what good244Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYiAWARIN92
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 comfort244Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTqy3VMCygw
and good food. But he couldn’t remember. After 5 months he was sent back to the244Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLiTYeHJ2Pq
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,244Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyjH0WxKdN3
nor for that matter anywhere in the internet. And Nur had that tattoo on his244Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMLQ5Z2H7GI
left arm. However most US Navy Seals graduates do this kind of stuff, as a kind244Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1yNk2BAvVa
of badge of honor. So it wasn’t unique nor conclusive.
She tried to get corroborating evidence from other sources including through Gen Sofi’s244Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZPi0oV53CM
successor. But there was none. It was a dead end. And now this article about a blowpipe in the Tibetan plateau far from244Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdes3II6qLp
its place of origin. If Nur was alive he would be in his 70s, the age of that244Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSlZbSqxKEA
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 have244Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3LTin5IkRg
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 that244Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXrvJfKxA07
possibility.”
And Jenny, one of her Senior Journalist, went on a trip to Qinghai.
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