Insurgents now taking aim at 'soft targets': Killing of Yala nurses

[northernjohn]

Just make a bit of effort and you will find the murdered Imam was not only Imam with his attitude to the killings. As I said the article was an example of one individual. I recall that 300 senior Imams signed some form of communication that denounced the militant killings after the subject Imam was murdered (remember reading in BKK Post). However, another example Runda Kumpulan Kecil (RKK) militant, who turned his back on the insurgency to work for peace, again murdered.

http://khabarsoutheastasia.com/en_GB/articles/apwi/articles/features/2012/11/17/feature-02

if you're interested do some deeper research, that despite what some post, it is claimed the majority of locals do not support the militants / terrorist killings.. I did provide a link within this topic, perhaps you did not or don’t want to read the content; just in case now repeated below.

http://www.deepsouth...h.org/node/5904

It's a truism that media rarely report the activities, positions, of the so called moderate Muslims and on the internet you often have to work past pages and pages of negative Muslim reporting and hate sites.

You might be interested to again another viewpoint, not a pretty picture, that allegedly provides some insight to the modus operandi of some of the insurgency / militant groups’ activities and how they have some understandings with Thai security forces

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/opinion/Map-of-violence-could-open-a-path-to-peace-in-deep-30234436.html

I opened

http://www.deepsouth...h.org/node/5904

A long winded post about statistics. In all likely hood they were arrived at by Thai Polls and I for one have no faith in them. Nothing about the citizens being against the terrorists. For instance the Poll showed 67% having faith in the peace process The only one I know of is the one with the BRN. They do not represent the currant terrorists. If I remember correctly when they agreed and started the process the number of terrorist connected murders went up. Speculation at the time was that they were showing that they had nothing to do with the peace talks and would continue on with their terrorism.

If the citizens were against the terrorists they could step forward and reveal their where a bout's as some did last year. They instead stay silent.

I do not do that much research but I do scan the Bangkok post and as yet to hear about the southern Muslim citizens rising up and denouncing and exposing the terrorists. I have yet to hear of any organized group of Muslims in the south coming out and publicly condemning them and exposing them. As noted in another article some of the imans have signed a petition. Wow. Where is it. Who did they give it to?

I still firmly believe that the answer to the problem ion the deep south is for the government to work with the people. Showing them that they are friends not enemies. I believe Abhist had a bit of luck with that approach. Showing them how to set up small business. Not sure why it was stopped. As it did seem to have a positive affect. He was able to lift the Martial law in some areas. As usual not much was said about it. The red shirts were grabbing the headlines then.

Much as I dislike the idea of Yingluck as Prime Minister I do feel that she could have made a big difference in the south with the people if she had put half the energy into it as she did in jet setting around the world.

All my opinion of course. No old Thai statistics and polls to back it up.

[simple1]

Just make a bit of effort and you will find the murdered Imam was not only Imam with his attitude to the killings. As I said the article was an example of one individual. I recall that 300 senior Imams signed some form of communication that denounced the militant killings after the subject Imam was murdered (remember reading in BKK Post). However, another example Runda Kumpulan Kecil (RKK) militant, who turned his back on the insurgency to work for peace, again murdered.

http://khabarsoutheastasia.com/en_GB/articles/apwi/articles/features/2012/11/17/feature-02

if you're interested do some deeper research, that despite what some post, it is claimed the majority of locals do not support the militants / terrorist killings.. I did provide a link within this topic, perhaps you did not or don’t want to read the content; just in case now repeated below.

http://www.deepsouth...h.org/node/5904

It's a truism that media rarely report the activities, positions, of the so called moderate Muslims and on the internet you often have to work past pages and pages of negative Muslim reporting and hate sites.

You might be interested to again another viewpoint, not a pretty picture, that allegedly provides some insight to the modus operandi of some of the insurgency / militant groups’ activities and how they have some understandings with Thai security forces

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/opinion/Map-of-violence-could-open-a-path-to-peace-in-deep-30234436.html

I opened

http://www.deepsouth...h.org/node/5904

A long winded post about statistics. In all likely hood they were arrived at by Thai Polls and I for one have no faith in them. Nothing about the citizens being against the terrorists. For instance the Poll showed 67% having faith in the peace process The only one I know of is the one with the BRN. They do not represent the currant terrorists. If I remember correctly when they agreed and started the process the number of terrorist connected murders went up. Speculation at the time was that they were showing that they had nothing to do with the peace talks and would continue on with their terrorism.

If the citizens were against the terrorists they could step forward and reveal their where a bout's as some did last year. They instead stay silent.

I do not do that much research but I do scan the Bangkok post and as yet to hear about the southern Muslim citizens rising up and denouncing and exposing the terrorists. I have yet to hear of any organized group of Muslims in the south coming out and publicly condemning them and exposing them. As noted in another article some of the imans have signed a petition. Wow. Where is it. Who did they give it to?

I still firmly believe that the answer to the problem ion the deep south is for the government to work with the people. Showing them that they are friends not enemies. I believe Abhist had a bit of luck with that approach. Showing them how to set up small business. Not sure why it was stopped. As it did seem to have a positive affect. He was able to lift the Martial law in some areas. As usual not much was said about it. The red shirts were grabbing the headlines then.

Much as I dislike the idea of Yingluck as Prime Minister I do feel that she could have made a big difference in the south with the people if she had put half the energy into it as she did in jet setting around the world.

All my opinion of course. No old Thai statistics and polls to back it up.

Ah well, looks as though you want to focus on belittling reports / analysis, so be it.

Besides the BRN there are eight (?) other seperatist groups. A number of observers claim the BRN political leadership and others have little or no capability with controlling the younger generation, more radical, armed militants, commonly referred to as Juwae. I assume the Juwae should be one of the primary focus for security forces, who do seem to have some successes with an increase in killing of the armed members. As repeatly stated by professional counter insurgency people, military force must be accompanied by political negotiations that so far has evaded the efforts of the Thai government.

After coming to power Yingluck did say she wanted to enter negotiations for some form of autonomy / locals having ownership of provincial govenance, rather than being governed by BKK appointees, military made very little effort to support the initiative, so nothing progressed.

Edited July 12, 2014 by simple1

[simple1]

Add to post #33:

The Thai State claims little knowledge of the 'players', seems odd after so much time has passed they have been unable to gather sufficient political intelligence. Have to say the known political representatives of the insurgency have shown little or no flexibility on concessions to achieve a 'road map to peace'