PM Yingluck Tells Deep South Of Govt's Plans To Restore Peace In Region

[hellodolly]

And the shootings of nurses - do you see the link. It has been reported that hospitals have been involved in selling drugs in the Deep South. Now this seriously pissed the drug lords off - so is it any wonder that hospital staff is a target of drug lords down here. And I'll let you work this one out - who-ever controls the borders controls the drug and cheap smuggled malay gas - you are talking Fortune 500 dollars here. All this creates a very explosive environment when all "residents" are vying for the biggest slice of the pie. Yes, and if a business does not pay the extortion fee - the employees start getting beheaded. This has nothing to do with "terrorists". It's all to do with the impossibility to stop the mafia. It may very well have been the mafia that bombed Lee Gardens - the army has commented that this may be the reason. If the army leaves the region the drug lords and extortion lords and smuggling lords will have the business "all to themselves". These people are uncompromising. It may very well be that this "terrorist" thing is just a big cover up for the real reason - mafia control of the whole region. I have been told schools are targeted because they see that the system by the buddhist state government as a form of brainwashing. That would be very easy to solve if the government was not so stubborn - just let the community run their own schools - or have Muslim schools. What would a Jew in Israel say if he had to be lectured on buddism every day. There would be an international outcry. Thailand should keep buddhism study out of the education if it has any respect for Christians, Muslims, Sikhs, Hindus and atheists. Of course the cure for stubbornness is not easy - and we can see that Yingluck is there for the show - again much about a do for nothing - and the slaughter continues because of this lack of will to make progress.

You say and I quote

"Of course the cure for stubbornness is not easy"

You are living proof of that statement you choose to live in Lao a country even more corrupt than Thailand yet you continue to post on all the wrongs and evil's of Thailand.

I have never been to a Thai school I was unaware of the fact they were studying Buddhism. I think they should have one class study all the different religions. This would enable them to have more of an open mind.

[heiwa]

I post on wrongs evils and goods in a sincere effort to make things better - and the main reason is to give a warning sign for the many innocent farang who get slaughtered here every year - murders converted to suicides. So you only want to hear the good. I suggest you read thaiscare.com You really should join the circus mister. Attention brought to the wrongs and evils create a safer better world and a lot more good. Its people like you with rose coloured glasses - the silent ones - that make the many parts of the world an awful place to live. Please go back to your plush residence and have a grande meal. This is not Laos visa - dementure? I have read many of your posts and I can tell you your knowledge of Thailand is very limited and does very little to help farang who come here. However, Laos more corrupt than Thailand? - over 20,000 gun murders in Laos - no - that's Thailand. You will not find many Laos people so nasty to do such terrible things like this. Thailand is a secret that is for sure - try to unpeel it and see what you find - good and bad.

Edited May 2, 2012 by heiwa

[Buchholz]

Four men, a Tambon Kamnan plus 3 Assistant Sub-district Chiefs, were all killed this afternoon in a drive by shoot in Pattani.

Gunmen in a pickup truck sprayed the sedan they were traveling in with AK-47 and M-16 assault weapons fire.

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[pastitche]

Posted Yesterday

Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said during her trip to the restive South yesterday the government would integrate all strategic plans to restore peace

Motorcycle bomb kills 2, wounds 6 soldiers in Thai south

Two Thai military rangers were killed and six were wounded on Tuesday when a bomb planted in a motorcycle exploded in the southern province of Pattani, a police officer said.

At least 5,000 people have been killed in southern Thailand since 2004 in violence attributed to Muslim separatists.

Police told Reuters that the soldiers from a ranger unit were travelling in a pickup truck, heading to an outpost when a bomb of up to 10kg was remotely detonated on a road near a military camp.

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http://www.straitsti...ory_794336.html

Reuters - May 1, 2012

What you trying to say buchholz, go on spit it out.

He's trying to say that, in a conflict that has been going on since 2004, PM Yingluck visited, made overtures and a terrorist attack subsequently occurred, so it was obviously her having been there that was the cause.

The fact that terrorists plan most attacks well in advance is of course irrelevant.

[Buchholz]

Four shot dead in Pattani

Four local officials were killed yesterday in a gunfight in Pattani's Sai Buri by suspected insurgents, while a man was shot dead in Narathiwat's Sungai Kolok district.

At about noon yesterday, a pickup truck with six men armed with war weapons chased another pickup carrying four officials on Sai Buri's Route 42. The gunmen opened fire at the victims' vehicle killing all four immediately and made off with weapons and the Bt300,000 in cash they were carrying to pay local defence volunteers.

The victims - identified as kamnan Sangworn Suwannarat, his deputy Preecha Thong-iad, and assistants Suphaphorn Charoensuk and Phornthip Pho-ngern - worked for the administration office for tambon Thung Khla.

Quoting eyewitnesses, police said the gunmen were in a gold-coloured Isuzu pickup truck and theorised that they might have been insurgents. The police do not have information about the licence plate number.

Separately, Narathiwat-native 21-year-old Arphan Awae was shot dead at around 5am by two men on a motorcycle who followed him home from a pub. The police have not ruled out that the murder was insurgency related because the Bt20,000 the victim had on his person was left untouched. Police say the money might have been earned illegally.

-- The Nation 2015-05-04

[phiphidon]

Posted Yesterday

Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said during her trip to the restive South yesterday the government would integrate all strategic plans to restore peace

Motorcycle bomb kills 2, wounds 6 soldiers in Thai south

Two Thai military rangers were killed and six were wounded on Tuesday when a bomb planted in a motorcycle exploded in the southern province of Pattani, a police officer said.

At least 5,000 people have been killed in southern Thailand since 2004 in violence attributed to Muslim separatists.

Police told Reuters that the soldiers from a ranger unit were travelling in a pickup truck, heading to an outpost when a bomb of up to 10kg was remotely detonated on a road near a military camp.

Continues:

http://www.straitsti...ory_794336.html

Reuters - May 1, 2012

What you trying to say buchholz, go on spit it out.

Once again you fail to see the obvious.

Oh I see the obvious don't you worry about that.

[Buchholz]

A father was murdered and his son seriously wounded Friday morning in Yala in a drive-by shooting.

The pickup truck they were traveling was attacked by another pickup truck with M-16 assault weapon fire, which then sped off.

The father was dead at the scene and his seriously injured 7 year-old son was taken to Yala hospital with multiple gunshot wounds.

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[waza]

OMB, its like dance of the sugar plum fairy. What a pic, Yingluck decends on the south like the messiah of peace, prancing around the flower bed waving her pink flowers like a magic wand that symbolises of love and peace, what a bimbo she forgot the fairy dust.

I see her helocopter that cant fly at night in the background, why does Thaksin get a private jet and Yingluck a disfunctional chopper?

Edited May 4, 2012 by waza

[Buchholz]

A man was shot dead Saturday morning while riding his motorcycle in Yala.

The gunman was on another motorcycle and fired an M-16 assault weapon multiple times killing the man on the spot.

The assailant then fled the scene.

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[hellodolly]

I post on wrongs evils and goods in a sincere effort to make things better - and the main reason is to give a warning sign for the many innocent farang who get slaughtered _here every year - murders converted to suicides. So you only want to hear the good. I suggest you read thaiscare.com You really should join the circus mister. Attention brought to the wrongs and evils create a safer better world and a lot more good. Its people like you with rose coloured glasses - the silent ones - that make the many parts of the world an awful place to live. Please go back to your plush residence and have a grande meal. This is not Laos visa - dementure? I have read many of your posts and I can tell you your knowledge of Thailand is very limited and does very little to help farang who come here. However, Laos more corrupt than Thailand? - over 20,000 gun murders in Laos - no - that's Thailand. You will not find many Laos people so nasty to do such terrible things like this. Thailand is a secret that is for sure - try to unpeel it and see what you find - good and bad.

Being as you live in Lao why do you post here in Thailand. Your use of the word refers to Lao as that is where you are at. Why don't you take your anti Thailand attitude and use it on Lao where they send Thai's who need retraining in corruption?

In case you missed it I highlited it and enlarged it in bold so you could see it.

[thaicbr]

I post on wrongs evils and goods in a sincere effort to make things better - and the main reason is to give a warning sign for the many innocent farang who get slaughtered _here every year - murders converted to suicides. So you only want to hear the good. I suggest you read thaiscare.com You really should join the circus mister. Attention brought to the wrongs and evils create a safer better world and a lot more good. Its people like you with rose coloured glasses - the silent ones - that make the many parts of the world an awful place to live. Please go back to your plush residence and have a grande meal. This is not Laos visa - dementure? I have read many of your posts and I can tell you your knowledge of Thailand is very limited and does very little to help farang who come here. However, Laos more corrupt than Thailand? - over 20,000 gun murders in Laos - no - that's Thailand. You will not find many Laos people so nasty to do such terrible things like this. Thailand is a secret that is for sure - try to unpeel it and see what you find - good and bad.

Being as you live in Lao why do you post here in Thailand. Your use of the word refers to Lao as that is where you are at. Why don't you take your anti Thailand attitude and use it on Lao where they send Thai's who need retraining in corruption?

In case you missed it I highlited it and enlarged it in bold so you could see it.

Seeing as how there is a large percentage of posters who post on TV who also don't live in Thailand. I really don't get your point.

You know that Yingluck is just doing the yearly 'we will end the southern problem tour '

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[GentlemanJim]

You cannot impose peace.

Peace comes through reconciliation, forgiveness, inclusion and proper understanding.

The foundation of which is respect for tradition, community values and cultural differences.

The caveat is that the conditions can only be created through a proper political process which, I regret to say, is lacking.

Perhaps you should have also added that it must be a two way process!

[hellodolly]

I post on wrongs evils and goods in a sincere effort to make things better - and the main reason is to give a warning sign for the many innocent farang who get slaughtered _here every year - murders converted to suicides. So you only want to hear the good. I suggest you read thaiscare.com You really should join the circus mister. Attention brought to the wrongs and evils create a safer better world and a lot more good. Its people like you with rose coloured glasses - the silent ones - that make the many parts of the world an awful place to live. Please go back to your plush residence and have a grande meal. This is not Laos visa - dementure? I have read many of your posts and I can tell you your knowledge of Thailand is very limited and does very little to help farang who come here. However, Laos more corrupt than Thailand? - over 20,000 gun murders in Laos - no - that's Thailand. You will not find many Laos people so nasty to do such terrible things like this. Thailand is a secret that is for sure - try to unpeel it and see what you find - good and bad.

Being as you live in Lao why do you post here in Thailand. Your use of the word refers to Lao as that is where you are at. Why don't you take your anti Thailand attitude and use it on Lao where they send Thai's who need retraining in corruption?

In case you missed it I highlited it and enlarged it in bold so you could see it.

Seeing as how there is a large percentage of posters who post on TV who also don't live in Thailand. I really don't get your point.

You know that Yingluck is just doing the yearly 'we will end the southern problem tour '

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No I did not know that was a yearly event.

[Buchholz]

Six injured in grenade attack at Narathiwat Red Cross Fair

NARATHIWAT, May 14 - One soldier and five local residents were wounded in a grenade attack yesterday in the southern province of Narathiwat.

Two men on a motorcycle hurled two hand grenades at government security personnel manning a checkpoint at a Red Cross Fair in Narathiwat municipality.

The six were injured by the fragmentation of one grenade only, as the other failed to explode.

After the incident, the police detained and questioned one suspect.

-- TNA 2012-05-14

[Buchholz]

16 paramilitary rangers wounded Sunday in Pattani

Sixteen paramilitary rangers were injured late Sunday night when insurgents detonated a roadside bomb to ambush them while they were returning to their base in Pattani.

The attack occurred about 50 minutes after midnight when 20 paramilitary rangers were returning from guarding the annual Pattani Red Cross Fair. They were travelling in a pick-up truck and a six-wheel truck, heading to their base in Nongchik district.

The two trucks stopped at the stop sign of the Don Rak intersection, which links to the Pattani-Hat Yai highway.

Police said the two trucks were waiting to turn on to the highway when insurgents detonated the bomb with a walkie-talkie.

The insurgents, who were hiding in bushes at the roadside, opened fire at the paramilitary rangers and the two sides exchanged gunfire for about five minutes before the insurgents retreated.

The two trucks were slightly damaged by the bomb shrapnel. The 16 paramilitary rangers, 10 of whom were women, were slightly injured and sent to the Pattani Hospital.

Security agencies had earlier learned that insurgents would try to attack the Red Cross fair and had thus beefed up security at the fair. Police believe insurgents changed their target to ambush the security officials on the way from the fair instead.

-- The Nation 2012-05-14

[Buchholz]

Policeman severely injured in Pattani shooting

Pattani - A policeman was shot and severely injured by insurgents late Sunday night.

Pol LC Waeha Sunlen, 28, of Thung Yangdaeng police station, was fired at by an unknown number of insurgents at about 30 minutes after midnight.

The attack happened at a roadside in Moo 3 village while the policeman was driving his pick-up truck to be on duty at the police station.

He was shot at his head and body and was rushed to the Yala Provincial Hospital.

-- The Nation 2012-05-14

[gand]

Violence in the deep South erupted in early 2004 and has seen more than 5,000 people killed since.

Thaksin Shinawatra Prime Minister of Thailand from 2001 to 2006.

[Buchholz]

Dozens Wounded in Southern Insurgent Attacks

Dozens of security officers and local villagers in Pattani and Narathiwat provinces were wounded in two separate bomb attacks last night.

Narathiwat's bomb disposal unit inspected a scene where unknown perpetrators hurled a grenade at a safety zone checkpoint on the Clock Tower intersection in the Narathiwat municipal area.

The incident took place when security officials were inspecting cars and motorcycles of local villagers who were heading to join the provincial Red Cross fair.

A total of seven security officials and local residents were injured in the bomb attack and all were rushed to Narathiwat Ratchanakarin Hospital for medical treatment.

Initial inspection found that unknown insurgents used an M-26 grenade in the attack. Authorities also found another M-26 hand grenade dropped near the scene.

In Pattani Province, unidentified militants detonated a bomb aiming at lives of a group of paramilitary troopers returning from providing security at the provincial Red Cross fair.

The bomb attack took place at a local traffic intersection in Rusamilae Sub-district of Pattani's Muang District.

A total of 17 people including both male and female paramilitary troopers, defense volunteers and local villagers were wounded in the attack. One was in critical contical condition.

All were taken to Pattani Hospital and Yala Central Hospital for treatment.

After the incident, authorities surrounded the area immediately and believed that a local group of insurgents was behind the attack.

This morning, Deputy Pattani Governor Lertkiat Wongpohthiphan visited those injured in last night's grenade attack at Pattani Hospital.

He later revealed that one male paramilitary trooper and a female soldier were still in critical condition while the others were safe.

Meanwhile, commander of the Pattani Muang District Police Station, Police Colonel Somporn Meesuk said after an initial probe of circumstantial evidence and other related intelligence information, authorities believed that a local RKK group in Pattani led by Masohrae Dueramae was responsible for the attack.

Also this morning, a 28-year-old police corporal from Pattani's Thung Yang Daeng District escaped an ambush by an unknown number of gunmen with slight injuries while he was on his way to work.

-- Tan Network 2012-05-14

Edited May 14, 2012 by Buchholz

[phiphidon]

Dozens Wounded in Southern Insurgent Attacks

Dozens of security officers and local villagers in Pattani and Narathiwat provinces were wounded in two separate bomb attacks last night.

Narathiwat's bomb disposal unit inspected a scene where unknown perpetrators hurled a grenade at a safety zone checkpoint on the Clock Tower intersection in the Narathiwat municipal area.

The incident took place when security officials were inspecting cars and motorcycles of local villagers who were heading to join the provincial Red Cross fair.

A total of seven security officials and local residents were injured in the bomb attack and all were rushed to Narathiwat Ratchanakarin Hospital for medical treatment.

Initial inspection found that unknown insurgents used an M-26 grenade in the attack. Authorities also found another M-26 hand grenade dropped near the scene.

In Pattani Province, unidentified militants detonated a bomb aiming at lives of a group of paramilitary troopers returning from providing security at the provincial Red Cross fair.

The bomb attack took place at a local traffic intersection in Rusamilae Sub-district of Pattani's Muang District.

A total of 17 people including both male and female paramilitary troopers, defense volunteers and local villagers were wounded in the attack. One was in critical contical condition.

All were taken to Pattani Hospital and Yala Central Hospital for treatment.

After the incident, authorities surrounded the area immediately and believed that a local group of insurgents was behind the attack.

This morning, Deputy Pattani Governor Lertkiat Wongpohthiphan visited those injured in last night's grenade attack at Pattani Hospital.

He later revealed that one male paramilitary trooper and a female soldier were still in critical condition while the others were safe.

Meanwhile, commander of the Pattani Muang District Police Station, Police Colonel Somporn Meesuk said after an initial probe of circumstantial evidence and other related intelligence information, authorities believed that a local RKK group in Pattani led by Masohrae Dueramae was responsible for the attack.

Also this morning, a 28-year-old police corporal from Pattani's Thung Yang Daeng District escaped an ambush by an unknown number of gunmen with slight injuries while he was on his way to work.

-- Tan Network 2012-05-14

It's plainly obvious that you will be continuing to post these news articles about deaths in the south in some misguided attempt to score political points ever since you saw

Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said during her trip to the restive South yesterday the government would integrate all strategic plans to restore peace

having shown little if any interest in the years from 2004 when the insurgency started. Have you ever just stopped and analysed what you are doing? What do you think you are achieving? I mean seriously, do you get some kind of perverse pleasure from it?

If you even bother replying do not come up with one of your usual glib comments about keeping the forum members informed.

[rubl]

Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said during her trip to the restive South yesterday the government would integrate all strategic plans to restore peace

Two questions on this

Q1: which strategic plans ?

Q2: if the separate plans don't work, why does the government think amalgamating them restores peace?

[phiphidon]

Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said during her trip to the restive South yesterday the government would integrate all strategic plans to restore peace

Two questions on this

Q1: which strategic plans ?

Q2: if the separate plans don't work, why does the government think amalgamating them restores peace?

Well nobody else has had any ideas that have worked down there so far - common denominator the army thinks it knows best. Prayuth chief instigator will not shift from Hawkish approach, PTP can't afford to wind up the Prayuth too much for obvious reasons so status quo- it's a festering sore.

[rubl]

Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said during her trip to the restive South yesterday the government would integrate all strategic plans to restore peace

Two questions on this

Q1: which strategic plans ?

Q2: if the separate plans don't work, why does the government think amalgamating them restores peace?

Well nobody else has had any ideas that have worked down there so far - common denominator the army thinks it knows best. Prayuth chief instigator will not shift from Hawkish approach, PTP can't afford to wind up the Prayuth too much for obvious reasons so status quo- it's a festering sore.

in others words PM Yingluck went down South to smile nicely and to say nothing of importance. Reminds me of this part from Foundation by Isaac Asimov (1942).

"That," replied Hardin, "is the interesting thing. The analysis was the most difficult of

the three by all odds. When Holk, after two days of steady work, succeeded in eliminating meaningless statements, vague gibberish, useless qualifications - in short, all the goo and dribble — he found he had nothing left. Everything canceled out.

Lord Dorwin, gentlemen, in five days of discussion didn't say one damned thing, and said it so you never noticed. There are the assurances you had from your precious Empire."

edit: add: mind you, there is a faint possibility I grant the dear lady more intelligence than she may possess or want to show

Edited May 14, 2012 by rubl

[waza]

Yinglucks speach......

[Buchholz]

Four shot dead in Pattani

Four local officials were killed yesterday in a gunfight in Pattani's Sai Buri by suspected insurgents, while a man was shot dead in Narathiwat's Sungai Kolok district.

At about noon yesterday, a pickup truck with six men armed with war weapons chased another pickup carrying four officials on Sai Buri's Route 42. The gunmen opened fire at the victims' vehicle killing all four immediately and made off with weapons and the Bt300,000 in cash they were carrying to pay local defence volunteers.

The victims - identified as kamnan Sangworn Suwannarat, his deputy Preecha Thong-iad, and assistants Suphaphorn Charoensuk and Phornthip Pho-ngern - worked for the administration office for tambon Thung Khla.

Quoting eyewitnesses, police said the gunmen were in a gold-coloured Isuzu pickup truck and theorised that they might have been insurgents. The police do not have information about the licence plate number.

Peace still eluding Thai south

On May 4, four local government officials were assassinated while travelling by sedan along a road in Saiburi, a district in the southern Thai province of Pattani. Reports say gunmen on a pickup truck opened fire on them with AK-47 and M16 assault rifles.

Given the wave of seemingly random attacks that has swept Thailand's southern border provinces since the insurgency first erupted in January 2004, the incident seemed almost routine. Indeed, the rebels are often depicted by government spokesmen as uncoordinated, lacking popular support, and reduced to desperate revenge attacks.

But the May 4 attack was no random assault. The assailants made off with 300,000 baht in cash meant to pay the salaries of village defence volunteers. Coordinated attacks against police and military targets are also increasingly common. Clearly, the insurgents are well organised and have access to a sophisticated surveillance network.

Since taking power in August last year, Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has made some effort to change all this. But a combination of official bungling and weak government in Bangkok are likely to ensure that success remains elusive.

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http://www.asianewsnet.net/home/news.php?id=31010

The Straits Times / 23-05-2012

[Buchholz]

Three killed, four injured in Pattani bomb attack

Pattani - Insurgents detonated a roadside homemade bomb to ambush a patrol unit of territory defence volunteers in this southern border province Monday, killing three of them and injuring four others.

The explosion occurred on a village road in Utae Buarangae village in Tambon Talo Duraman in Kapho disrict.

The seven volunteers were patrolling the road in a pick-up truck.

The blast hurled the truck several metres away from the explosion spot, and hurled the volunteers outside the vehicle.

Three of the volunteers died at the scene. They were identified as Abdulloh Hawae, Nima Masae, and Muhammad Alisu.

-- The Nation 2012-05-28

[phiphidon]

Three killed, four injured in Pattani bomb attack

Pattani - Insurgents detonated a roadside homemade bomb to ambush a patrol unit of territory defence volunteers in this southern border province Monday, killing three of them and injuring four others.

The explosion occurred on a village road in Utae Buarangae village in Tambon Talo Duraman in Kapho disrict.

The seven volunteers were patrolling the road in a pick-up truck.

The blast hurled the truck several metres away from the explosion spot, and hurled the volunteers outside the vehicle.

Three of the volunteers died at the scene. They were identified as Abdulloh Hawae, Nima Masae, and Muhammad Alisu.

-- The Nation 2012-05-28

Thought you'd lost interest in trying to score political points - strange that you weren't posting these almost daily events during the term of the Democrat Party coalition, now why is that?

[rubl]

After the alleged involvement of k. Thaksin in a peace talk with insurgents, the PM Yingluck government has stepped up a verbal offence to restore peace in the Region. Now the alleged involvement of k. Thaksin is still unclear although he clearly non-denied with "who am I to do such". No-one bother to ask k. Abhisit either it seems, still waiting next to the phone, like in October/November last year. Strangely enough no-one has bothered to sue the Democrats for defamation either, normally that's the first official reaction

In a way nothing has really improved down South over the last eight years or so, only every once in a while a PM will say 'now solve this problem'.

Edited May 28, 2012 by rubl

[waza]

Hmmm how long before Yinglucks initiative will bear fruit and be declared another success?

[waza]

Posted 2012-04-30 06:11:30

PM tells deep South of govt's plans to restore peace in region

3 months later............

July 28, 2012, 12:06 pm

BANGKOK (AFP) - Militants shot dead four soldiers and wounded two others early Saturday in Thailand's volatile south, an army spokesman said, as a surge in violence since the start of Ramadan continued. http://au.news.yahoo...ive-thai-south/

Posted on 28 July 2012

Muslims have begun fasting for the start of the Ramadan holy month in Indonesia, Malaysia, and elsewhere around Asia, but the somber occasion was marred in Buddhist-dominated Thailand by two bomb blasts that killed one person and injured seven http://www.nwasianwe...n-ramadan-fast/

Publication Date : 26-07-2012

Five policemen were killed yesterday and another wounded by a car bomb attack in the Raman district of Yala in restive south Thailand.

The sixman squad from Tha Thong Police Station, which was assigned to escort teachers at U Poh Shool, was on a mobile patrol before arriving near a bridge where a silver Isuzu pickup truck with hidden explosives was parked. The truck exploded, hitting the police vehicle. http://www.asianewsn...?id=34006&sec=1

Edited July 30, 2012 by waza

[Thai at Heart]

Hmmm how long before Yinglucks initiative will bear fruit and be declared another success?

It doesn't make a lot of difference if you are going to send out army patrols on Honda Waves.

Hardly commanding the area are they. Sadly, there is a ton of armoured equipment sitting in the base just up the road from me, waiting to repel the invaders from, Vientiane, I guess.