5 Years Later
ELDERLY CHINESE FARMER DISARMS BURGLARS WITH BLOWPIPE
June 5, 2086102Please respect copyright.PENANAKlexLp5kpf
Beijing – A farmer in the remote province of Qinghai on the Tibetan plateau disarmed two102Please respect copyright.PENANAbuZb1j7UUD
burglars with a blowpipe. The elderly farmer in his 70s was awakened from his102Please respect copyright.PENANAtczfsp9NnZ
sleep in the middle of the night from sound coming from his kitchen. Using a102Please respect copyright.PENANAermSvvJ3NH
blowpipe, he disabled both burglars as they were scrounging around his home.102Please respect copyright.PENANAD7RsNCMgNY
The darts used had a powerful tranquilizing drug used on animals. When asked102Please respect copyright.PENANAwbcW7pKyTk
how he acquired the blowpipe, he said he instinctively knew how to make the 5-foot102Please respect copyright.PENANAubdsLd8TQh
long blowpipe out of bamboo. He was not taught the trade. A blowpipe is a102Please respect copyright.PENANApuWVfkxUHv
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 to102Please respect copyright.PENANAeDRc6CnICR
knock down two burglars?” Cheng asked Hiang as she came into the office during102Please respect copyright.PENANAameK6H2W2x
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 agenda102Please respect copyright.PENANAu3y0ShT52G
today?”
They discussed the topics of the day that would potentially appear in the paper102Please respect copyright.PENANAEs3soB2cRm
tomorrow.
But the story stuck in her mind: the blowpipe is a weapon indigenous to Borneo in the102Please respect copyright.PENANArpr24ZWSvy
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 4102Please respect copyright.PENANAwxcQDaSvPh
years ago after she had printed an article of Nur in the Singapore Times. The102Please respect copyright.PENANAPTgiT2yBbn
article was an account of her search of the special forces officer over 6 years102Please respect copyright.PENANAOirxF7M72W
culminating in her visit to the Etajima Naval Academy where she witnessed his102Please respect copyright.PENANAv3QUVFAddS
death on video.
The retiree had a rank equal to a Lt Col in the Singapore Armed Forces when he was with102Please respect copyright.PENANADvkgFbDNKT
China’s People’s Liberation Army. Lt Col Shang claimed he was a captain when he102Please respect copyright.PENANAaqNqWWi2VP
was attached to the Intelligence Department of the PLA. He said he recognized102Please respect copyright.PENANAJcejDYAEgW
Major Nur as the prisoner he was tasked with keeping watch over in 2051. She102Please respect copyright.PENANAeYcQub5Exi
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 the102Please respect copyright.PENANATevL4BIrT5
South China Sea. But he couldn’t remember anything from his past. Maybe he was102Please respect copyright.PENANAZNvEBBzFnG
faking it. We couldn’t be sure. So we kept him for 5 months asking the same102Please respect copyright.PENANA45oGnrW5vJ
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. He102Please respect copyright.PENANAGpLtRL5okO
was a high priority target and they wanted him alive. They pulled him out of102Please respect copyright.PENANAonCXa7KRtU
the water and applied CPR.”
“I saw he was in the water for 20 minutes his head submerged. How could anyone be102Please respect copyright.PENANAvHitK18ufd
resuscitated after being in the water for 20 minutes?”
He shrugged. Hiang eyed him as he answered the questions. He seemed sincere. And what good102Please respect copyright.PENANAQhE00W1WXI
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 comfort102Please respect copyright.PENANAjHhMH0W3o3
and good food. But he couldn’t remember. After 5 months he was sent back to the102Please respect copyright.PENANA1xyH1l1GJG
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,102Please respect copyright.PENANA3cwNKqbUYg
nor for that matter anywhere in the internet. And Nur had that tattoo on his102Please respect copyright.PENANAeM34mfxZpl
left arm. However most US Navy Seals graduates do this kind of stuff, as a kind102Please respect copyright.PENANAjkiMQGnGwm
of badge of honor. So it wasn’t unique nor conclusive.
She tried to get corroborating evidence from other sources including through Gen Sofi’s102Please respect copyright.PENANAgGvnu5XOEh
successor. But there was none. It was a dead end. And now this article about a blowpipe in the Tibetan plateau far from102Please respect copyright.PENANAfRkCJ0jxQv
its place of origin. If Nur was alive he would be in his 70s, the age of that102Please respect copyright.PENANAU6U923wvbp
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 have102Please respect copyright.PENANAhFKDUUlyEG
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 that102Please respect copyright.PENANA3r7rV2viGd
possibility.”
And Jenny, one of her Senior Journalist, went on a trip to Qinghai.
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