Soldier Killed As Series Of Attacks Staged In Narathiwat

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Soldier killed as series of attacks staged in Narathiwat
Nakarin Chinnavornkomol,
Narong Nualsakul,
Santhiti Khorjitmate
The Nation

NARATHIWAT: -- A soldier was killed and many others injured when a bomb exploded in Narathiwat's Rusoh district at 4.55pm yesterday.

Details were still unavailable as of press time.

Just an hour and a half earlier, a blast erupted in the province's Sungai Padi district, injuring self-defence volunteer Anan Kamon, who sustained minor injuries to his right leg when shrapnel struck a car carrying him and the assistant chief district officer of Sungai Padi.

They were on their way to join Army Rangers in conducting a search of an area where suspicious activities had been reported. They were following a police patrol car when the blast occurred.

Crater in the road

The explosion took place on Sungai Padi-Sakor Road at around 3.20pm, blowing a 50-centimetre-deep hole in the road surface.

Police believe the bomber had been hiding nearby and triggered the blast when the official vehicles arrived. About 10 kilograms of explosives were used, officials said.

Sungai Padi Police Station inspector Pol Lt-Colonel Sopon Janchote, who was in the patrol car, believed the blast was linked to the insurgent violence in the deep South.

A white banner reading "Peace will thrive when Pattani gets its independence" hung over the scene of another explosion in Narathiwat yesterday morning.

The explosion occurred just as a police patrol team stopped at the spot to check the banner.

No one was injured or killed.

"When we stopped to check, an explosion took place," Yi-ngor Police Station deputy inspector-general Pol Lieutenant Surat Muenwai said.

The incident took place at around 8.40am.

The blast caused a crater about 60cm deep and 80cm wide. The explosives, which police estimated must have weighed around 25kg, were stuffed inside a cooking-gas cylinder.

In a separate incident earlier in the day, unknown assailants used an M79 grenade launcher to attack a spot near the official residence of Somwang Ruangpeng, the chief of Narathiwat's Rangae district. The grenade attack caused no casualties.

Exchange of fire

On Thursday night, armed men opened fire on the base of Ranger Battalion 4113 in Yala's Raman district.

On-duty rangers exchanged gunfire with the attackers for about five minutes before they retreated.

According to an informed source, security agencies have instructed all units in the deep South to be on alert.

Key members of the Pemuda movement in Malaysia reportedly instructed their teams to stage ambush shootings and explosions in the southern border provinces between March 28 and April 4 to express the group's opposition to ongoing peace talks between Thai authorities and the Barisan Revolusi Nasional group in Kuala Lumpur.

On Thursday, three volunteer rangers were killed in an attack in Narathiwat's Joh I Rong district. Three of their colleagues were also injured.

Narathiwat police chief Pol Maj-General Wichai Kasemwong said police were now questioning four men suspected of playing a role in that attack.


-- The Nation 2013-03-30

[chainarong]

Meanwhile peace talks continue in Malaysia .

[Locationthailand]

No real answer to these idiots other than return the violence with a vengeance. So much for the peace talks where the sides don't even bother to turn up.

[MikeOboe57]

Seems like the Chalerm Reconciliation and Peace (CRAP) Commission has picked the least important group to talk to. The Nasional Revoluzzis just wanted to join the talks before they are completely marginalized by the more active factions and disappear as a footnote of history. Meanwhile the other groups do their best (or better, worst) to show that they are the real big players in this dirty game.

[tomross46]

Why not ask Obama for Drones? That would make people think. These Drones could be part of the weather research project.

[fasteddie]

Meanwhile peace talks continue in Malaysia .

So what's so funny? It's got to start somewhere. What's your answer then clever clogs? More oppression leading to more attacks leading to more oppression leading to more attacks and so on and so forth?

[Pi Sek]

Meanwhile peace talks continue in Malaysia .

So what's so funny? It's got to start somewhere. What's your answer then clever clogs? More oppression leading to more attacks leading to more oppression leading to more attacks and so on and so forth?

Sadly, most of the comments on these Southern Insurgency threads (which seem to come from people with absolutely no knowledge of the history pre-2003, who have never been there) seem to agree with your tongue-in-cheek disaster solution of continued oppression and continued attacks.

Even more sadly, most Thais I speak to agree with this. Unless I'm talking in Yawi.

[Jonathanukthai]

No real answer to these idiots other than return the violence with a vengeance. So much for the peace talks where the sides don't even bother to turn up.

Doesn't work , the only way you are going to fix a problem with violence is buy wiping the whole lot out and i mean every one year 1200 style, wife's, male and female children as well and thats not going to happen, so, lets just forget the violence way.

Thaksin is not going to fix anything they hate him wit vengeance.

[Jonathanukthai]

So can someone here who believes in the violence for violence path explain how that would fix something, how would that persuade a lot of extremist that are only to happy to die who believe that in doing so will go straight to heaven, people who are just waiting fro that to give them a extra recruitment tall, so how would this solve the problem?

[Mudcrab]

Key members of the Pemuda movement in Malaysia reportedly instructed their teams to stage ambush shootings and explosions in the southern border provinces between March 28 and April 4??????????????????????????????

Would this considered to be an Act of War?

[Markaew]

Since Thais have no real respect for life, why the big headlines? I respect life, but that doesn't seem to convey to others.

[simple1]

Key members of the Pemuda movement in Malaysia reportedly instructed their teams to stage ambush shootings and explosions in the southern border provinces between March 28 and April 4??????????????????????????????

Would this considered to be an Act of War?

Think you will find they are collectively described, as well as the other radicalised armed groups, as Juwae. These are the groups that the older generation of the separatist leaders described, prior to the recent talks, as the most difficult to influence to engage in the peace process. The Pemuda movement are believed to be more aligned with the BRN Coordinate. It is alleged they infiltrate between the Thai/Malaysian border. Most of them would be Thai Malay citizens.

[surangw]

hunt down their leaders, the ones that get their stooges to do all the dirty work.