Seven Dead In Thai South Attacks: Police

[webfact]

Seven dead in Thai south attacks: police

NARATHIWAT, October 24, 2011 (AFP) - Suspected Muslim insurgents have killed at least seven people in back-to-back shooting and bomb attacks in Thailand's troubled south, police said Monday.

On Sunday evening an unknown number of gunmen dressed as women, travelling in three pick-up trucks, opened fire on a checkpoint in the main town of Narathiwat province killing two rangers.

Shortly afterwards a bomb exploded at a nearby supermarket, followed by a second bomb at another supermarket about 300 metres (yards) away, causing fires that spread through shophouses and took three hours to extinguish.

Police said they found two charred bodies of the male owner and a female teacher in the first shop, while a young boy and his parents were found dead in the second.

Another seven people suffered burns in the attacks, which happened within the space of half an hour -- the latest in a series of increasingly brazen attacks by the shadowy militants.

Thailand's southernmost provinces have been plagued by more than eight years of conflict that has claimed the lives of more than 4,800 people, both Muslims and Buddhists.

Late last month, more than a dozen suspected insurgents attacked a school in Narathiwat, killing four soldiers and seriously wounding one child.

Teachers working in state schools are frequently targeted because they are seen as a symbol of government authority and an education system perceived as an effort by Bangkok to impose Buddhist culture.

People in the region complain there is discrimination against ethnic Malay Muslims by authorities in the Buddhist-majority nation, including alleged abuses by the armed forces.

-- (c) Copyright AFP 2011-10-24

[Buchholz]

Seems to reoccur when the Deep South has been taken out of the headlines for awhile. It also seems the longer that absence, the greater the event that thrusts back into the headlines and these nearly concurrent attacks with multiple fatalities follows that pattern. Almost like, "don't ignore us."

Worryingly, can add the Ongoing Deep South Violence to Yingluck's plate to deal with in addition to Thailand Floods 2011.

[Steely Dan]

Is 'troubled' a euphemism for jihad afflicted?

[wellred]

Why can't the Military just go in and bust some heads? The Buddhists need to forum some counter group to fight back.

[animatic]

Seems to reoccur when the Deep South has been taken out of the headlines for awhile. It also seems the longer that absence, the greater the event that thrusts back into the headlines and these nearly concurrent attacks with multiple fatalities follows that pattern. Almost like, "don't ignore us."

Worryingly, can add the Ongoing Deep South Violence to Yingluck's plate to deal with in addition to Thailand Floods 2011.

Agreed. They weren't getting their desired press coverage.

We never need this, but worse when the rest of the country is a disaster too.

[FOODLOVER]

Why can't the Military just go in and bust some heads? The Buddhists need to forum some counter group to fight back.

They have. You want more of this?

[Credo]

Very sad news at a particularly sad time for the country.

[alexakap]

Seven dead in Thai south attacks

Just the time....

[chinook]

Why can't the Military just go in and bust some heads? The Buddhists need to forum some counter group to fight back.

Tak Bai, Oct 25 2004, google it. Youtube it. You might want to reconsider your cracking heads comment. The Tak Bai incident haunts the South and will continue to do so until somebody is held responsible for the atrocities committed by the RTA on that day. Thai Muslims are expected to 'feel Thai' when all they see on tv etc are white skinned Thai Buddhists, it's no wonder they'd rather be under Malaysian rule.

[Buchholz]

Suspected insurgents kill 7 in Thailand's restive south

PATTANI, Thailand - Police say suspected Muslim insurgents have killed seven people and injured 10 more in Thailand's violence-plagued south.

Police Colonel Kwandee Chimplee says assailants opened fire at a security checkpoint on Sunday night in Narathiwat city, then set off homemade bombs near two grocery stores in the same area.

Col Kwandee said on Monday the dead included two civilian defence volunteers and two civilians, along with a soldier, his wife and son. Col Kwandee says authorities believe the same group of militants was responsible for all three attacks.

Read more:

http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/SEAsia/Story/STIStory_726702.html

Associated Press - 16 minutes ago

[Buchholz]

Seven killed in southern Thailand attacks

Muslim insurgents shot dead two soldiers before detonating a bomb at a supermarket that killed five civilians in the southern Thai province of Narathiwat, police said on Monday.

The attacks took place late on Sunday, when ethnic Malay militants in pickup trucks opened fire on troops guarding a checkpoint in the downtown area of the province bordering Malaysia, about 1,200 km (745 miles) south of Bangkok.

Ten minutes later, police said a bomb exploded at a supermarket, with flames engulfing four buildings. The charred bodies of a Muslim woman and a Buddhist shop owner and three members of his family were found later.

More than 4,800 people have been killed in violence since 2004 in the predominantly ethnic Malay Muslim provinces of Yala, Pattani and Narathiwat, where 40,000 troops have been deployed to try to halt near-daily shootings and bombings.

Continues:

http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/seven-killed-in-southern-thailand-attacks

-- Reuters 2011-10-24

[tangcoral]

Death toll at more than 4,800. Isnt that more death than the the 1948-present day Israel-Palestine conflict?

Yet not even 1% of the world population even knew anything was going on in southern thailand right?

[serenitynow]

Why can't the Military just go in and bust some heads? The Buddhists need to forum some counter group to fight back.

The Queen has formed a counter group, but we can't say what we think about it.

[serenitynow]

Death toll at more than 4,800. Isnt that more death than the the 1948-present day Israel-Palestine conflict?

Yet not even 1% of the world population even knew anything was going on in southern thailand right?

Yeah, just think of the money both sides could get if they got Israeli / Palestinian type exposure.

[JayBlake]

Why can't the Military just go in and bust some heads? The Buddhists need to forum some counter group to fight back.

They have. You want more of this?

I, for one, don't want to see that again.

It troubles me.

Far too lenient.

[wellred]

Haven't watched that video yet but I googled it so have some idea of what the Tak Bai incident is. Having said that I saw another video around 2 months ago which would even the hardest mans stomache churn. Some family in te south massacred. The footage was taken by the police on the scene after. Little boy with maybe 6 years old beheaded, father I think hacked and hung and god knows what else there but it was a blood bath. What can't these lot just get along with everyone else.

[tommckay1478]

My favourite place in the deep south.

Much greater chance of getting killed in Belfast, and the army look out for you as u r 1 of the few tourists.

love the place and will be back, screw the 0.00001% chance i will die.

[tommckay1478]

Thai militants r really nice to foreigners.

i think getting knifed by a ladyboy trying to rob, in bangkok, u wud b 100000% more likely.

if i ever moved to Thailand , I would move to the deep south; unlike the countess morons who buiy an issan wife in pattaya.......

[Buchholz]

Seems to reoccur when the Deep South has been taken out of the headlines for awhile. It also seems the longer that absence, the greater the event that thrusts back into the headlines and these nearly concurrent attacks with multiple fatalities follows that pattern. Almost like, "don't ignore us."

Worryingly, can add the Ongoing Deep South Violence to Yingluck's plate to deal with in addition to Thailand Floods 2011.

It repeated today after being "ignored" over the past month.

In the last 24 hours, a rash of violence was re-ignited throughout the region:

3 monks, 3 policemen and 3 civilians were all injured by a bomb going off in Pattani.

A vegetable seller was shot in a drive-by shooting in Narathiwat.

Electrical power poles were knocked down by a series of explosions in Yala.

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Edited November 21, 2011 by Buchholz

[Buchholz]

Seems to reoccur when the Deep South has been taken out of the headlines for awhile. It also seems the longer that absence, the greater the event that thrusts back into the headlines and these nearly concurrent attacks with multiple fatalities follows that pattern. Almost like, "don't ignore us."

Worryingly, can add the Ongoing Deep South Violence to Yingluck's plate to deal with in addition to Thailand Floods 2011.

It repeated today after being "ignored" over the past month.

In the last 24 hours, a rash of violence was re-ignited throughout the region:

3 monks, 3 policemen and 3 civilians were all injured by a bomb going off in Pattani.

A vegetable seller was shot in a drive-by shooting in Narathiwat.

Electrical power poles were knocked down by a series of explosions in Yala.

It's not going away.

Perhaps the PM can spare a few moments from the pardon/amnesty itinerary and make a comment or something.

Yesterday:

3 killed in Narathiwat gun attack

Three people were killed when unknown gunmen opened fire at a pickup truck in Narathiwat yesterday morning.

Edited November 25, 2011 by webfact
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