Ramadan Attacks Hit Deep South (Video)

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Ramadan Attacks Hit Deep South (Video)

By Teeranai Charuvastra, Staff Reporter

 

Forensic officers search a bombed ATM for evidence Sunday night in Pattani

 

PATTANI — More than 20 bomb attacks struck the three southern border provinces tonight, injuring at least two people.

 

The wave of bombings, which mostly targeted ATMs and banks, went off shortly after nightfall on the third day of Ramadan.

 

Full story: http://www.khaosodenglish.com/news/crimecourtscalamity/2018/05/20/ramadan-attacks-hit-deep-south/

 

-- © Copyright Khaosod English 2018-05-21

 

 

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Multiple bomb attacks hit Thailand's deep south, injure three people

 

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Multiple bomb attacks by suspected separatist insurgents injured at least three people in Thailand's far south on Sunday, the military said.

 

A decades-old separatist insurgency in predominantly Buddhist Thailand's largely ethnic Malay, Muslim provinces of Yala, Pattani and Narathiwat has claimed the lives of nearly 7,000 people since 2004, according to the Deep South Watch group, which monitors the violence.

 

Successive governments have held talks with rebel groups aimed at bringing peace but the discussions have largely stalled, including under the current, military government.

 

In Sunday's attacks, explosives were placed near ATM machines and bank branches in at least 14 locations across four southern provinces, including Yala, Pattani and Narathiwat, as well as Songkhla province, the military said.

 

"There is violence every year during the period of Ramadan," Colonel Pramote Prom-in, a regional security spokesman, told Reuters.

 

Muslims around the world marked the start of the fasting month of Ramadan last week.

 

As with most attacks in Thailand's deep south, there was no claim of responsibility.

 

Yala, Pattani and Narathiwat were part of an independent Malay Muslim sultanate before Thailandannexed them in 1909.

 

Some rebel groups in the south have said they are fighting to establish an independent state.

 

Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha told local media in April that his government has made "major headway" in talks with insurgents, which have been mediated by neighboring Malaysia since 2015.

 

But a spokesman for Mara Patani, one of the insurgent groups talking to the government, told Reuters that progress has been slow and blamed the Thai government for dragging out the talks.

 

(Reporting by Panu Wongcha-um, Panarat Thepgumpanat and Surapan Boonthanom; Editing by Amy Sawitta Lefevre and Raissa Kasolowsky)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2018-05-21

[Get Real]

Can it really be so bad, that it´s muslims that do these bad things? We see it all to clear in many parts of the world today.
After that we hear and see different parts go out and defend their people from this sick behaviour. We can´t belive that no more.

It´s time that the rest of the world stand up, and demand the ones representing themselfs as the major and good part of this religion, take care about their own bad plants.

If they want to be trusted, that will say.

Edited May 20, 2018 by Get Real

[RichardColeman]

1 hour ago, Get Real said:

If they want to be trusted, that will say.

Personally I would never trust anyone that openly prays with a book about a pedo profit urging mass beheading and rape on non believers ! If I wrote a book stating kill all muslims, behead them and rape them it would rightly be banned, yet we pander to this vile religion it seems. I am quite sure that not all members of the Nazi party were bad - yet it was responsible for death en-mass and rightly banned. There is a currently genocide being caused by Islam - so maybe time to ban it like the Nazi party.   

[chippendale]

Brace yourselves for the annual Ramadan Bombathon.

[hansnl]

Another show of the religion of peace......

[Baerboxer]

55 minutes ago, RichardColeman said:

Personally I would never trust anyone that openly prays with a book about a pedo profit urging mass beheading and rape on non believers ! If I wrote a book stating kill all muslims, behead them and rape them it would rightly be banned, yet we pander to this vile religion it seems. I am quite sure that not all members of the Nazi party were bad - yet it was responsible for death en-mass and rightly banned. There is a currently genocide being caused by Islam - so maybe time to ban it like the Nazi party.   

 

Banning religions never works. The Catholics tried to ban, kill, and intimidate Protestants. Shi'ites and Sunnis have been at it for years. The Catholics tried to ban and exterminate Jews at various time as well as crusading against Muslims.

 

Now you have the situation where Islam is the fastest growing religion in the world; the most fanatically followed, and the most brutal and intolerant of other religions or those that don't believe. Banning it - do you thinks it's millions of devotees, some of the most aggressive people on the planet, are going to accept that?

[Srikcir]

5 hours ago, webfact said:

The wave of bombings, which mostly targeted ATMs and banks

Targets that surely to the insurgents represent the Kingdom of Thailand's occupation and subjugation of the Muslim South. Were any Muslim banks/ATM's attacked?

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Three injured in series of bomb attacks in Pattani, Yala, Songkhla

By The Nation

 

Muslim insurgents carried out more than ten simultaneous bomb attacks in the southern border provinces of Pattani and Yala Sunday evening, injuring three civilians. Two other attacks happened at the same time on ATMs in Songkhla province.

 

Pattani police chief Pol Maj Gen Piyawat Chalermsri said seven attacks were carried out in four districts in Pattani, all at about 7pm.

 

Two women were injured in the blast at an ATM machine in front of the Bank for Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives (BAAC) in Muang district.

 

They were named as Sompit Sakonwichit, a chief physical therapist at Pattani Hospital, and Somjit Srisombat, a traditional medicine practitioner at the same hospital. They were slightly injured.

 

A man, Somkid Sakulwijit was also injured when a bomb shrapnel hit his left eye after a blast at an ATM in front of Kasikorn Bank on Yarang Prong road in Muang district.

 

Two other explosions in Muang district were also launched on ATMs. No one was injured at the Islamic Bank on Yarang road in Muang district or at the Government Savings Bank in front of Pattani Technical College.

 

There were no injuries in three other bomb attacks.

 

In Nong Chik district, an ATM at the BAAC bank was damaged, the second took place near a police station in Tambon Khao Toom, Yarang district and the third happened in front of Satsana Sueksa School in Sai Buri district.

 

The Pattani police chief said security cameras around the districts detected several insurgents riding motorcycles to plant the homemade bombs, the insurgents apparently trying to cause damage to the local economy.

 

Meanwhile in Yala, homemade bombs damaged ATMs in front of five banks in Bannang Sata district at about 7.20pm.

 

Another explosion damaged an ATM at Krung Thai Bank in Yala’s Kabang distirct at nearly at the same time but no injuries were reported.

 

Police said insurgents also fired an M79 grenade at an Army post in Yala's Than To district. No troops were injured.

 

In Yala's Yaha district, bomb disposal officers defused a bomb left in front of a convenient store opposite the district hospital.

 

Meanwhile, two ATMs in Songkhla province’s Thepha and Sabayoi districts were damaged in bomb blasts that happened at about the same time as those in Pattani and Yala.

 

One was at a PTT petrol station on the Hat Yai-Pattani road in Ban Sawan village, Tambon Sakom, in Thepha, while in Sabayoi, the other ATM to be damaged was at the Government Savings Bank in Ban Huay Bon village, Tambon Ban Node.

 

No one was injured in the two Songkhla explosions.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30345895

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2018-05-21

[Aupee]

2 hours ago, webfact said:

Three injured in series of bomb attacks in Pattani, Yala, Songkhla

By The Nation

 

Muslim insurgents carried out more than ten simultaneous bomb attacks in the southern border provinces of Pattani and Yala Sunday evening, injuring three civilians. Two other attacks happened at the same time on ATMs in Songkhla province.

 

Pattani police chief Pol Maj Gen Piyawat Chalermsri said seven attacks were carried out in four districts in Pattani, all at about 7pm.

 

Two women were injured in the blast at an ATM machine in front of the Bank for Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives (BAAC) in Muang district.

 

They were named as Sompit Sakonwichit, a chief physical therapist at Pattani Hospital, and Somjit Srisombat, a traditional medicine practitioner at the same hospital. They were slightly injured.

 

A man, Somkid Sakulwijit was also injured when a bomb shrapnel hit his left eye after a blast at an ATM in front of Kasikorn Bank on Yarang Prong road in Muang district.

 

Two other explosions in Muang district were also launched on ATMs. No one was injured at the Islamic Bank on Yarang road in Muang district or at the Government Savings Bank in front of Pattani Technical College.

 

There were no injuries in three other bomb attacks.

 

In Nong Chik district, an ATM at the BAAC bank was damaged, the second took place near a police station in Tambon Khao Toom, Yarang district and the third happened in front of Satsana Sueksa School in Sai Buri district.

 

The Pattani police chief said security cameras around the districts detected several insurgents riding motorcycles to plant the homemade bombs, the insurgents apparently trying to cause damage to the local economy.

 

Meanwhile in Yala, homemade bombs damaged ATMs in front of five banks in Bannang Sata district at about 7.20pm.

 

Another explosion damaged an ATM at Krung Thai Bank in Yala’s Kabang distirct at nearly at the same time but no injuries were reported.

 

Police said insurgents also fired an M79 grenade at an Army post in Yala's Than To district. No troops were injured.

 

In Yala's Yaha district, bomb disposal officers defused a bomb left in front of a convenient store opposite the district hospital.

 

Meanwhile, two ATMs in Songkhla province’s Thepha and Sabayoi districts were damaged in bomb blasts that happened at about the same time as those in Pattani and Yala.

 

One was at a PTT petrol station on the Hat Yai-Pattani road in Ban Sawan village, Tambon Sakom, in Thepha, while in Sabayoi, the other ATM to be damaged was at the Government Savings Bank in Ban Huay Bon village, Tambon Ban Node.

 

No one was injured in the two Songkhla explosions.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30345895

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2018-05-21

Those Muslims Terrorists in the South are wasting their time a drunken driver in Kolat got 13 injured he didnt have a bomb just too much to drink and a set of car keys

[Golden Triangle]

Might decide to cancel my holiday down that way then, their loss. 

[Srikcir]

15 hours ago, webfact said:

Yala, Pattani and Narathiwat were part of an independent Malay Muslim sultanate before Thailandannexed them in 1909. 

 

Some rebel groups in the south have said they are fighting to establish an independent state.

The southern insurgency is about regaining Muslim sovereignty. This is different from ISIS.

It is not about a clash between Sunnis (the majority) and Shias as it was in Iraq.

It is about a clash between a Thai Buddhist government and Malay (I prefer "Patani") Muslims. Muslims had no say about their annexation and are under continuous martial law. It is only recently that Muslim students can wear hijab and long trousers in school in line with their religious rules.