Two policemen kidnapped, murdered by insurgents in Narathiwat

[Huayrat]

6 hours ago, SOTIRIOS said:

...200 meters from the tea shop....???

 

...how is that possible.....???

 

...what back roads come into the picture....???

 

...condolences to the families....

 

...hard to understand what is really going on in that area....

 

...maybe a number of different things...???

 

 

200m and No gunshots heard hmmmm

[Prissana Pescud]

4 hours ago, KhunBENQ said:

What soldiers?

Where do you read that?

I read that these were ordinary policemen in their unarmed pickup.

(which makes it look even worse, similar to random killing of monks, teachers, civil servants)

Yes you got me. I posted soldiers when they were policemen. That does not diminish my respects to them.

Nor the basic content of my post. Thanks for the correction.

[webfact]

Bodies of 2 kidnapped policemen found in Narathiwat, 1 killed in Yala

By The Nation

 

 

THE BODIES of two policemen were found early yesterday after they had been kidnapped the night before in a raid by suspected insurgents on a teashop in Narathiwat’s Joh I Rong district.

 

Pol Corporal Nares Iiadthong, 31, and Pol Corporal Ruswaidee Samae, 30, were found shot dead in a ditch in tambon Pukit at 12.30am yesterday. Joh I Rong Police Station was alerted of the kidnapping immediately after eight insurgents raided the teashop on Tuesday evening at 7.30pm. Two villagers, Rosi Mana and Dulman Jejdeh, were drinking tea with the policemen when the insurgents arrived.

 

Rosi and Dulman told police that eight masked and armed suspects showed up dressed like soldiers. While four of the suspects stood guard outside, four entered the shop, spoke to the policemen in Thai before forcing them at gunpoint into Nares’ pickup truck and speeding off.

 

Alerted of the kidnapping, Joh I Rong police chief Pol Colonel Lukman Borkoh radioed all 13 police stations in Narathiwat to hunt for the pickup in a bid to rescue the officers. But at 12.30am, villagers contacted the Joh I Rong police chief to report that the two policemen’s bodies had been found dumped in a roadside ditch about 200 metres from the teashop.

 

Lukman then dispatched a team of police and bomb disposal officers to investigate, fearing that the insurgents might have booby-trapped the scene. No bomb was found at the spot. At 4.30am, Narathiwat deputy police chief Pol Colonel Kong-at Suwankham reported Nares’ pickup had been found torched on a road in Ban Paluka village in tambon Kosit of Tak Bai district. A bomb-disposal team was again sent to the scene, but found no explosive devices.

 

Kong-at, who is acting Tak Bai police chief, said the kidnappers apparently knew local routes well because they had used back roads to avoid police checkpoints. They drove through Sungai Padi and Sungai Kolok districts without being detected, he added.

 

Police believe the suspects may have already fled across the border into Malaysia. Kong-at said the insurgents had also snatched an M16 assault rifle and two 9mm pistols from the slain policemen. 

 

Meanwhile, a friend of Nares mourned his passing in a Facebook post: “You vowed to be a good policeman for the southern border zone that you held so dear. Dear friend, you did your duty till the last minute of your life. Rest in peace, my friend.”

 

A volunteer-for-development club of the Prince of Songkla University’s Surat Thani Campus also lamented that Nares had become a victim of the South unrest. Apparently, Nares had been an active member of the club. 

 

On Tuesday, a bomb attack killed ranger Angkhan Ruenkham, seriously injured another and wounded a civilian in Yala’s Bannang Sata district. Angkhan was on patrol duty.

 

Lt-General Wanlop Thitikul, deputy director of the Internal Security Operations Command Region 4’s Forward Command, yesterday led a ceremony in which Angkhan’s coffin, draped with a national flag, was paraded through guards of honour before being loaded into a helicopter at a military base in Pattani’s Yarang district. 

 

The body will be sent by air to his hometown in Mae Hong Son province and his funeral will be held based on Christian beliefs. 

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/national/30364918

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2019-02-28

[simple1]

8 hours ago, Srikcir said:

2019-02-04 :

• Mara Patani, an umbrella organisation of insurgent groups in the deep South, has announced its decision to suspend peace talks with the Thai government and called for the replacement of the Thai delegation head General Udomchai Thammasarorat with someone “more credible”.   http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/national/30363503

There are sad consequences in the Thai military's failure to present a credible peace talks.

One has to consider whether the military really cares about a peaceful end to the insurgency or is satisfied with a certain level of violence as the status quo.

It is contrary to the Thai military oath to agree to some form of autonomy for the deep South. Accordingly how can we expect a constructive outcome for peace talks? An additional factor is the endemic corruption, procurement, people trafficking, drugs and so on, as the conflict continues there are players enriching themselves

[Whip]

It just goes on and on and rhe government does nothing

[Stargeezr]

It is the people of the South who should be seeking peace, but is that the Muslim way? I do not know how they think so I am asking. RIP to the two police officers.

Geezer

[ta158]

not only muslim terrorists in that area, also very brutal and big drug gangs who is working togheter with the terrorists.