Haji Sulong Abdul Qadir

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Haji or Haji Sulong Abdul Qadir , actually Sulong bin Abdul Kadir bin Mohammed el Patani (* 1893 Pattani , Thailand ; † August 13, 1954 ) was a Malay imam and politician from southern Thailand .

At the age of 12 he went to Mecca, where he studied until 1924. He became the main representative of the Jawi- writing elite Muslim Malay as chairman of the Islamic Religious Council for Pattani Province .

In 1946 he had initially hoped in vain for Pattani to join the Malay Union or its successor, the Malaya Federation , in 1947 he also made contact with Indonesia's leader Sukarno , who advocated a unified state of all Indonesians and Malays including Pattani. As a more realistic alternative, he proposed Pattani’s autonomy within Thailand in 1947: He called for the unification of the three provinces of Pattani, Yala and Narathiwat under a governor from the south who was elected locally and an 80% share of the administrative posts corresponding to the Malay population, Malay school lessons and the reintroduction of Sharia law. Haji Sulong was arrested for this in early 1948 and convicted of high treason. Although he had to be released again in 1952 following ongoing mass protests, he "disappeared" in 1954 with his eldest son Ahmad Tomina (known as Wan Mohammed according to other sources ) and was probably murdered on the orders of Police General Phao Siyanon .

Some Muslims regard him as a rapt or hidden imam , and most Malays of subsequent generations as a martyr and symbol of resistance against Thaiization .

His youngest son, Amin Dato Minal, was elected as a member of Pattani's parliament in Bangkok in 1957, even though several of his employees were murdered during the election campaign. In Bangkok in 1958 he tried (unsuccessfully) to publish an earlier book by his father on independence (Gugusan Chahaya Keselamatan).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Human Rights Watch Report 2007: A brief history of insurgency in the South
  2. ↑ a b Dennis P. Walker: Conflict Between the Thai and Islamic Cultures in Southern Thailand (Patani) 1948-2005 ( Memento of the original dated December 24, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / pkukmweb.ukm.my
  3. ^ A b Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Part 8, Number 1 (March 1977), pages 85-105: The Problem of the Thai-Muslims in the Four Southern Provinces of Thailand (Part 2)
  4. ↑ Mark Teufel: The Crisis of Democracy , Chapter 5: The War in Southern Thailand , page 373 epuli-Verlag 2009
personal data
SURNAME Haji Sulong Abdul Qadir
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sulong bin Abdul Kadir bin Mohammed el Patani; Haji Sulong
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Thai imam and politician
DATE OF BIRTH 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Pattani , Thailand
DATE OF DEATH August 13, 1954