Three police officers gunned down in Yala after prayers

[Lite Beer]

Three police officers gunned down in Yala after prayers
The Nation

YALA: -- A deputy police superintendent of Krong Pinang district in Yala and two other officers were killed in an ambush on Thursday night while returning from a Muslim prayer session with local villagers.

Police suspect some 10 insurgents, led by Hubaideela Romuelee of the Runda Kumpalan Kecil (RKK) separatist movement, were responsible for the gun attack, in which Pol Lt-Colonel Adinan Isma-ae, Pol Sub-Lieutenant Danupol Asae and Pol Lance Corporal Hama Sarato were killed. A stray bullet also wounded bystander Addulloh Japakiya.

Funerals for Adinan and Danupol were held yesterday in Muang district, while the funeral for Hama was held in Raman district. Many police attending Adinan's funeral said the late deputy superintendent was a good man and had over the past seven years urged people, especially youths, to do good deeds and study Islam.

In related news, although trainees at Yala's Phra Yupparat Yaha Hospital are shaken up after two classmates were shot down, they have said they will continue studying. One student said after classmates Sutheera Phetchan and Kulradee Petchmak were killed on July 9, the college ordered them to drop their training at the hospital and return. She said they have all realised they need to adjust and be more cautious.

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/national/Three-police-officers-gunned-down-in-Yala-after-pr-30238318.html

-- The Nation 2014-07-12

[96tehtarp]

It goes on and on.

Edited July 12, 2014 by 96tehtarp

[soalbundy]

Some may think, as long as they are separatists who a are fighting for their freedom its OK. It isn't. No titles can diminish the fact that this was a cowardly murder.

[noitom]

There is a thin line between terrorist and freedom fighter. Thais military dictatorship doesn't seem to be interested in the Thai south killing and dozen year plus insurgency. The seem to be more interested in making petty busts and rounding up Rohingya and sending them back to Myanmar after making a deal with generals in that dictatorship.

[futsukayoi]

Some may think, as long as they are separatists who a are fighting for their freedom its OK. It isn't. No titles can diminish the fact that this was a cowardly murder.

I think you have this wrong they are are fighting because of their visceral hatred of freedom. Their cause is to abolish :-

Freedom to worship anything but their bigoted creed,

Freedom to educate women or for them to dress as they please

Freedom to eat or drink what one pleases

Freedom to institute democratic institutions

etc etc

[Robby nz]

Would have had to be planned and targeted not just a random killing, the murderers must have known where the three police went to pray and probably got a message from a contact as to when they left for home.

Just what is the answer to stop this brutality I don't know, but it would seem for sure that prayer is not.

[Maroon Watcher]

...when two sides fight and kill, within any religion -

It's for POWER and curruption

NOT for the Relgion or the PEOPLE.

[Alwyn]

There is a thin line between terrorist and freedom fighter. Thais military dictatorship doesn't seem to be interested in the Thai south killing and dozen year plus insurgency. The seem to be more interested in making petty busts and rounding up Rohingya and sending them back to Myanmar after making a deal with generals in that dictatorship.

Don't forget the important work they're undertaking getting motor cycle taxis to wear the same coloured vests

[robertthebruce]

How sad is this, I mean it's getting beyond belief, plus these three guys had just finished there Prayers ???

So so sad....