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What is funny is the word "Thai" before the meaning Free or Free People, meaning was "Brown Skin People". They have lost there way and history.

tak bai massacre, ThakSin. Karma is calling you.

Red-shirt leader Kwanchai says 7 released leaders to run as partylist MP candidates for Pheu Thai Party to gain MP immunity /TAN_Network

Was he wearing the famous red Ghandi teeshirt when he spouted this one?

He is not worthy to clean Mahatma Gandhi toilet!

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A police force that was not a mafia, then all the poor street cats and dogs.

The Constitution means nothing as long as the military is the real shot caller and corruption is the order of the day.

wisdom

agree...sure thaksin was corrupt but corruption is so everyday in thailand....he took it from the military and they did not like to see there wealth go....

he took it from all over and spread hate and death.

Does anyone in the Thai government ever think or use their brains in any way? This kind of third world barbarian mentality is so out of step with the modern world. Who do they want to be? North Korea? Someone really needs to explain the definition of a democracy to them. People actually have some civil and human rights in a real democracy. More evidence of the sham being perpetrated on the Thai poeple. I laugh every time I see a reporter referring to Thailand as a democracy. They are utterly clueless.

wisdom again.

The Constitution means nothing as long as the military is the real shot caller and corruption is the order of the day.

wisdom

The whole Royal Thai Police is just one big Gangster. They are the only untouchable criminals. Like many posters said above, without a complete overhaul, no one will ever trust the thai police and their reputation will never get any better.

This is also how the UN see's them.

I would have the police rounding up stray dogs in the mornings and picking up trash in the afternoons and then they would be doing some good for the nation.

And might learn some humility which they have forsaken and forgotten.

The Thai Police are merely a product of a flawed cultural and societal system.

They are representative of Thai society itself, and the country as a whole.

They can never be changed or improved until the cultural flaws are addressed.

this need to be painted all over thailand...

Hun Sen accused Thai troops of firing cluster bomb at Cambodian troops.

1) Does any one know if Thailand has cluster bombs?

2) Aren't cluster bombs dropped from planes?

the can be in both forms.

I would take the sound of people being called to Religion any day to the drunken call to pour karaoke singing that sometimes goes on all night.

The casualities are pretty low at the moment which leads me to believe there's nothing to fret about. After all both armies are fairly incompetent and weak so it's like two cripples butting heads in their wheelchairs. The only Thai forces worth mentioning are the few well trained naval commando units and the U.S. purchased airplanes. Other than that it'll remain a low intensity border conflict. Neither has the mechanized or armored power to make any serious stand.

Huston we have Wisdom...

Not the muslims. Its only that bunch of extremists who we need to eradicate.

Now we have wisdom again.

All about making more money and double checked it does say everyone in the car. Can’t wait to see this being enforced. Welcome to Oz.

If the coalition is now allowing the country to be governed then take control and remove the external threat of colour separation!

For the South - that is a harder solution but a complete ban on weapons down there may be a beginning.

The temple - just give it to Cambodia but limit the amount of surrounding land - after all it is only a pile of rubble with some shape left in it. 1 less temple from the 100,000 (reportedly) in Thailand won't make any difference - will also clear the way for better trade and ties with Cambodia, your neighbour.

It’s about pride and power not common sense.

your quote:

"They should have learned from the red shirts that there is no satisfactory answer for these people. The only way to stop them is with violence. and I don't mean Thaksin type violence."

Please tell me about the other types of violence you speak of? I have been waiting for more of the racist to post and you all said what I thought you would. You said I am scared and don't understand the people in the south. You want to fix this problem its simple. Punish the people on both sides that comment this terrible crime. The people in the south see a corrupt country filled with alcoholics that don't care about them and they have a point. The have lost faith in the Thai government and who can blame them. No all Muslims are bad not all Buddhist are good. Both sides need to shake the rotten fruit from their trees.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

Mohandas Gandhi

After meeting Sonthi i lost faith in the PAD. They are just like the Red's. Poor people being used by the rich.

The southern Muslim should have some gratitude to the Thai people and especially the <reference removed>. Thai people take them in, provide shelter, and protection from the Malay bandit. Thai people even allow Muslim to buy land (unlike Farang), and allow them 100% freedom to settle in Thailand with equal voting rights as Thai people (go ask a Kurd or Tibetan if they can vote). Give them an inch, and now they want a foot. What's next? A mile? ? ? Just imagine this story. A man was on his way back from market spot a helpless and homeless dog ran over by a bus. He pick it up, carry him home, nurse it, feed it, and provide a small shelter at the back of the house for the poor dog. He even provid it the freedom to roam around at will; unlike the chicken & pigs the owner kept. The dog survived and grew stronger everyday due to the celestial love given by the owner of the house. However, the dog think to itself. If I can chase the owner away, I will have the whole house to myself and all the food from the fridge, plus be a master of the chickens and pigs. So it began to bite the owner, trying to chase him off the house. This is no Aesop Fables or George Orwell, but kind of similar to the situation in Southern Thailand right now.

When discussing serious topics, a little humor is always welcome.

You are joking, aren't you?

I wish. Sad but true this is a common view. Most Thais are doomed to repeat the History the schools do teach. The videos of the soldiers torturing the southerners are now all over YouTube and Aljazeera. Things will get worse; they demanded justice even took their case to the highest court in the land only to be made fools. Instead of justice they were given false teeth.

A father beaten to death in front of his two sons no one punished. The military has just produced a generation who only know hate and want revenge. Sad times.

The southern Muslim should have some gratitude to the Thai people and especially the <reference removed>. Thai people take them in, provide shelter, and protection from the Malay bandit. Thai people even allow Muslim to buy land (unlike Farang), and allow them 100% freedom to settle in Thailand with equal voting rights as Thai people (go ask a Kurd or Tibetan if they can vote). Give them an inch, and now they want a foot. What's next? A mile? ? ? Just imagine this story. A man was on his way back from market spot a helpless and homeless dog ran over by a bus. He pick it up, carry him home, nurse it, feed it, and provide a small shelter at the back of the house for the poor dog. He even provid it the freedom to roam around at will; unlike the chicken & pigs the owner kept. The dog survived and grew stronger everyday due to the celestial love given by the owner of the house. However, the dog think to itself. If I can chase the owner away, I will have the whole house to myself and all the food from the fridge, plus be a master of the chickens and pigs. So it began to bite the owner, trying to chase him off the house. This is no Aesop Fables or George Orwell, but kind of similar to the situation in Southern Thailand right now.

History is not your strong point. There might be no country called Thailand without these Dogs you spoke of. They helped stop Thailand from becoming The People Republic of Siam and got stabbed the back for it from the Thais, USA and UK. I just see a sad story getting sadder every day.

The most wisdom I have seen in print regarding the matter. The endless violence needs to stop and parties on both sides need to be praised and punished. The Thai culture will have to adapt to fit these people or it will have to let them go their own way to see the senseless violence end. We put author, well put.

Campaigning activities will be piloted in 242 educational zones in 22 provinces across the country

What's wrong with the other 57 or so provinces?

No problem in those provinces. This is a nation of strong morality ,sexual shyness and I believe thanks to the ambient pollution, especially the hormone mimicking chemcials in the water, males have reduced sexual urges for females due to an induced genetic predisposition to femininity.

this might be closer to the truth then you think. it also happens in rats when the numbers become to high.

Crime is heavily under reported in Thailand due to the fact that the police are either incompetent, involved, or likely to take advantage of the situation. I expect the real numbers are much higher. Can't comment on the missing people stuff as they don't say for how long or what efforts were made to find them. But we know stalkers do use the internet to find victims so no reason to doubt it happens here too.

Wisdom... dead on.

If you don’t educate or provide hope this is what you get, people who have no faith in those who lead and don’t think it matters who they vote for. Neither side really cares about them anyway.

Never trust anyone always do your own homework. We did the research and it proved that starting your child later is better than pushing them into a grade earlier. Best thing I ever did, my daughter is top of her class in most subjects. Even with this we double check all homework. My daughter often shows us the errors in the text books and homework sheets. The children are the future for this country and should be priority one not just a new way to make a fast Baht.