Pattani School Director Killed On Way To Funeral

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SOUTH CRISIS

Pattani school director killed on way to funeral

The Nation

A school director was fatally shot near her school as she was driving to a funeral in Pattani's Nong Chik district yesterday.

PATTANI: -- Nuntana Kaewchan, 51, of Banta Kamcham School was shot in the face and torso. She was taken to a nearby hospital but succumbed to her injuries there.

Police said Nuntana was driving her car to the funeral of a police officer. She was about 100 metres from her school when two men hiding near a fence emerged and sprayed the car with bullets. The gunmen then escaped into the nearby bush.

Five bullet casings from an M16 rifle and 15 spent shells from a 9mm pistol were found at the scene, police said.

After the attacks, Banta Kamcham and other nearby schools abruptly suspended classes. Soldiers escorted teachers and students to prevent more attacks.

Nuntana is the 154th school employee to fall victim to violence in the South.

-- The Nation 2012-11- 23

[binjalin]

why??? RIP

[asiawatcher]

Why doesn't the Govt send 50,000 police to Pattani and clean up this crap once and for all. Bangkok certainly won't miss them. Switch the traffic lights to 30 second intervals and watch what a difference that will make with police in absentia doing what they should be doing. Getting rid of this murdering cowardly brainwashed rabble. So sad to see the demise of people who dedicate their lives to educating others and being taken out by ignorant scum.

[DocN]

Sad and sickening!

R.I.P.

[lizardtongue]

<deleted> to what end, what gain is to be made by executing this woman I really do not understand the motives?

[GentlemanJim]

The code of conduct for assassins/executioners always had the caveat...no women...no kids. How brave of these scumbags to hide in the bushes and then shoot a woman in the face I wonder if they feel proud of their work today? This poor woman must have suffered an agonising, terrifying death, and all for what? dedicating her life to teaching children. It is difficult not to feel angry reading this kind of stuff.

[Halion]

Yet another useless loss of a life in the service of others taken by scum how have no moral or social concience and to all intent and purpose, no cause. Sadly it will continue owing to the fact that the Government do not have the balls to act decisively and the police and military do not have the capability.

Can not understand why none of the international media have not taken a more active role. Whether this Government wishes to accept or not ,the fact is that the southern provinces are in a state of civil war.

Simply calling it the "restive south" is like calling the Normandy Landings, a day on the beach.

[JulesMad]

R.I.P.

(((just wondering how she can afford to drive a Benz with the low salaries in the education sector!?!)))

[jbrain]

Why are those terrorist targetting teachers ?

[Scott]

The Benz may a family car. It might be from her husband. At any rate the car is not the point of the thread.

My condolences to the friends, family and students.

[steelepulse]

Do these idiots not want their children educated? RIP to the school director.

[lostinisaan]

My deepest condolences to her family and friends. How will it be in 2015, having the ASEAN community? Sad, very sad....

[lostinisaan]

Do these idiots not want their children educated? RIP to the school director.

Guess these idiots don't want to have their kids educated in a Thai school. They want this part of the country.

[Fozfromoz]

These are the sort of sub human scum that some would have us believe can be rehabilitated. The people that carry out these gutless attacks, and the hierarchy that support them simply would be incapable of sitting around the table, negotiating for peace or whatever.

This crap just goes on day after day, sure as the sun comes up.

I really dont give a tinkers cuss if they didn't have toys as a child, want their own state or whatever their bulls**t reasons are. They are the lowest form of life, and this planet cannot be worse off without them.

154 educators alone, now murdered by these gutless bastards. They have forfeited their rights to live once they do this and organise this.

All I can hope is soon, that they get what's coming to them, but somehow this huge army, police, and every other paramilitary cling on, can't seem to track a wounded elephant through snow.

End of rant.

[billd766]

The headline should have read

Pattani School Director MURDERED on the way to a funeral

Which is what really happened.

[crazydrummerpauly]

R.I.P.

(((just wondering how she can afford to drive a Benz with the low salaries in the education sector!?!)))

Irrelevant comment, but for information, senior staff in Thai schools (headmistresses/masters) get paid 70,000 to 100,000 Bt a month; and huge LOANS are almost pushed on government and municipal teachers because the repayments are deducted and sent to the bank before the remainder is made available to the borrower. Loans to teaching staff of multiple millions are not uncommon.

[scotbeve]

why??? RIP

Good question to ask of the party whose stronghold is a sweetheart of the greater portion of the south....

[sunshine51]

A true tragedy. Why did this happen and for what gain?

I was going to hack out a long rant but post # 14 said

it all...Thanks Foz.

RIP & condolences to the family.

[Songhua]

They will continue with this cowardly crap until they get what they want: Schools and businesses closed on Fridays.

Unfortunately the other locals down there will continue to suffer because that's not going to happen - nor should it.

Loss of innocent life is the 'price of freedom' ...... it sucks.

[Yahooka]

Do these idiots not want their children educated? RIP to the school director.

These scum want their children to be braught up uneducated so they can end up as fanatic,subhuman scum just as their parents.There are nice decent muslims in the troubled South,but Ive also met some of the must spiteful and unpleasant people in the world down there.I guess its easy to blame the Thai goverment for your poverty when you have 6 children in your early twenties and you cannot get a job because of your hate of all infidels.

I never forget the incident 6 years ago when 2 young,female schoolteachers where attacked and kicked to death,most of the perpetrators where muslim woman and children.

[squarethecircle]

So sad to see the demise of people who dedicate their lives to educating others and being taken out by ignorant scum.

Not to justify this crime or disrespect victims of violence down South, but...

None of the directors of schools I've seen here have "dedicated their lives to educating others..."

It's more like a business investment, they pay as much as several million Baht for the position, and in exchange they get steady returns on tuition, profits from construction projects given to "friendly" firms (those that pay a healthy enough "contribution" to the director), etc.

Just like in many schools in Pathet Falang - educational authorities, teachers' unions, etc., tend to get in the way of education.