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 two112Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuD477eMxR0
burglars with a blowpipe. The elderly farmer in his 70s was awakened from his112Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpk6V2aWf1R
sleep in the middle of the night from sound coming from his kitchen. Using a112Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi8HRRsuyVV
blowpipe, he disabled both burglars as they were scrounging around his home.112Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡECyJDlOSuC
The darts used had a powerful tranquilizing drug used on animals. When asked112Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA7DUAPtGlM
how he acquired the blowpipe, he said he instinctively knew how to make the 5-foot112Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2wbPATRkGl
long blowpipe out of bamboo. He was not taught the trade. A blowpipe is a112Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvO5ZgT2uHH
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 to112Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7rloCnxJIl
knock down two burglars?” Cheng asked Hiang as she came into the office during112Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbKeUkis0dj
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 agenda112Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb69q7FSZNF
today?”
They discussed the topics of the day that would potentially appear in the paper112Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO1jYVgSUEk
tomorrow.
But the story stuck in her mind: the blowpipe is a weapon indigenous to Borneo in the112Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQBoS0HygCO
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 4112Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLhDzlXJBsI
years ago after she had printed an article of Nur in the Singapore Times. The112Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkWnzqEv3eL
article was an account of her search of the special forces officer over 6 years112Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ63FhgwS6jW
culminating in her visit to the Etajima Naval Academy where she witnessed his112Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2v1Sly7Idu
death on video.
The retiree had a rank equal to a Lt Col in the Singapore Armed Forces when he was with112Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1VFNZ7SStu
China’s People’s Liberation Army. Lt Col Shang claimed he was a captain when he112Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaTJzXNusSX
was attached to the Intelligence Department of the PLA. He said he recognized112Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPrCWD3zaER
Major Nur as the prisoner he was tasked with keeping watch over in 2051. She112Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMtezCIofVU
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 the112Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmic54ekYzH
South China Sea. But he couldn’t remember anything from his past. Maybe he was112Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa0mujLouVh
faking it. We couldn’t be sure. So we kept him for 5 months asking the same112Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZnw8TyfW0N
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. He112Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3LuCTW9odt
was a high priority target and they wanted him alive. They pulled him out of112Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjLBWr4ePHS
the water and applied CPR.”
“I saw he was in the water for 20 minutes his head submerged. How could anyone be112Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIuJajEET4S
resuscitated after being in the water for 20 minutes?”
He shrugged. Hiang eyed him as he answered the questions. He seemed sincere. And what good112Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5XVllavwZH
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 comfort112Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsHo9Ge4buZ
and good food. But he couldn’t remember. After 5 months he was sent back to the112Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzsUptFzCf3
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,112Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmKClL8XvGB
nor for that matter anywhere in the internet. And Nur had that tattoo on his112Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡATRC7S66ly
left arm. However most US Navy Seals graduates do this kind of stuff, as a kind112Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIHROrVk7Se
of badge of honor. So it wasn’t unique nor conclusive.
She tried to get corroborating evidence from other sources including through Gen Sofi’s112Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm7rKC4DQs5
successor. But there was none. It was a dead end. And now this article about a blowpipe in the Tibetan plateau far from112Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJjEvEPwa3L
its place of origin. If Nur was alive he would be in his 70s, the age of that112Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJlvFtWy4Wg
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 have112Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXbEhgoxtuq
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 that112Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzYwm8PZYES
possibility.”
And Jenny, one of her Senior Journalist, went on a trip to Qinghai.
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