MPs from all sides seek to meet Prayut over resurging violence in deep South

[snoop1130]

MPs from all sides seek to meet Prayut over resurging violence in deep South 

By The Nation

 

Photo by: The Nation

 

Eleven MPs from the South, both from coalition parties and the opposition, called on Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-o-cha to meet them and review measures for dealing with the ongoing insurgency in the southern border region. 

 

The group, led by Phalang Pracharat’s Yala MP Alidan Alihashoh, held a press conference at Parliament on Wednesday to call on Prayut, who is also defence minister, to meet them to urgently review measures enforced under two security laws. 

 

Also present at the press conference were Bhumjaithai party-list MP Phetdao Tohmeena, opposition Prachachart Party’s Yala MP Sugarno Matha and Narathiwat MP Kamolsak Leewamoh. 

 

Alidan told the press that he and MPs from other parties in the southern border provinces were seeking to meet Prayut, so they can inform him of the ongoing problem in the South and encourage him to review measures for dealing with problems in the region. 

 

He said MPs had found that the martial and emergency laws enforced to deal with violence in the deep South had become the reason for a resurgence in violence. Alidan said violent incidents have heightened over the past week, and the MPs believe the insurgents have stepped up these attacks as a retaliation against authorities. 

 

The latest attack on a security checkpoint in Yala resulted in two deaths and two people getting injured. 

 

Alidan said all MPs from the southern border provinces and senior opposition politicians had agreed that the South border issue should be addressed with cooperation from all sides. Hence, he said, a special House committee should be formed to review the enforcement of the two security laws and seek new measures to bring the violence to an end. 

 

Kamolsak also called on the Army chief in the South to appoint set up a panel to investigate the alleged beating up of insurgent suspect, Abdulloh Esormusor, inside the Ingkhayuth military camp in Pattani.

 

Abdulloh, 34, was apprehended by security officers at 4pm on Saturday and taken to camp, where he was found unconscious at 3am the following day and rushed to hospital. 

 

Kamolsak said he hopes Abdulloh is the last suspect to be beaten up in custody.

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30373585

 

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[fxe1200]

Latest since the Tak Bai massacre on October 25, 2004 the politics and the army of Thailand producing more and more insurgents in the very south. Truly not the way to bring peace to the annexed provinces in the very South.

[Geoffggi]

Shame they cannot use the submarines ......

[petermik]

The PM has his head in the sand where important issues are concerned...........

[Srikcir]

20 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

taken to camp

... for interrogation

21 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

rushed to

... Pattani hospital's ICU with brain swelling.

https://www.thaipbsworld.com/thai-military-condemned-for-alleged-torture-of-a-muslim-man-in-pattani/

21 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

found unconscious at 3am the following day

That might seem to mark the end of the interrogation.

[Srikcir]

21 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Eleven MPs from the South, both from coalition parties and the opposition, called on Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-o-cha to meet them and review measures for dealing with the ongoing insurgency in the southern border region. 

Good luck.

Previously, Prayut rejected BRN's precondition for peace talks that the issue of sovereignty of the southern Thai provinces that were formerly the Kingdom of Pattani be placed on the national agenda. Now it appears these MPs are attempting to make it a national issue (are they "political insurgents?").

What's the significance of being in the national agenda? Issues are resolved from a political perspective and not from a military perspective.

Prayut has demonstrated an inability to make any progress over the last five years as a junta leader:

• May 23, 2016 - Thai junta leader Prayuth Chan-ocha lamented the ongoing bloodshed in southern Thailand and implicitly criticized his own government’s feeble attempts to restart talks with the insurgents. https://www.cfr.org/blog/thailands-junta-and-southern-insurgency
• December 30, 2018 - Thailand's junta leader Prayut Chan-o-cha yesterday decried "opportunists" after a wave of coordinated bomb attacks by suspected insurgents hit the country's Muslim-majority "deep south" https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/thai-pm-decries-spike-in-violence-in-restive-south
• Janury 22, 2019 - Bangkok-based analysts and well-placed Malay Muslim sources in the ethno-religious minority region believe that a disconnect has emerged between Thailand’s military under new army chief General Apirat Kongsompong and Prayut’s military junta. https://www.asiatimes.com/2019/01/article/thai-juntas-fragility-a-separatist-opportunity/