Five cellular antennas torched in Narathiwat

[Lite Beer]

Five cellular antennas torched in Narathiwat

Southern militants burned down five mobile phone transmission antennas in Bacho, Yi Ngor and Ruesor districts of Narathiwat province Friday night, causing damages and disrupting services of three mobile operators, AIS, DTAC and True Move in the areas.

Forensic and Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) police reported two GSM cellular antennas of AIS and DTAC in Ruesor were burned.

The arsonists used car tyres and gasoline in burning the AIS transmission antenna. It was totally damaged. A DTAC antenna was also burned the same way, but was slightly damaged.

In Yi Ngor, two DTAC and a True Move cellular antennas were also torched but were slightly damaged as local residents helped to put the fires out
in time.

EOD police inspecting the five scenes Saturday morning said they have to take extreme caution as the militants might leave behind bombs to harm EOD team.

Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/five-cellular-antennas-torched-narathiwat/

-- Thai PBS 2014-11-01

[ggt]

Ignorant people wanting to keep everyone in their area in the stone age...Thailand needs to bring in an "A" team from another country to go in and take these criminals out...after more than 10 years of negotiations...its is time to think outside the box...

[impulse]

Ignorant people wanting to keep everyone in their area in the stone age...Thailand needs to bring in an "A" team from another country to go in and take these criminals out...after more than 10 years of negotiations...its is time to think outside the box...

Or some drug dealers making a big haul that night and they don't want the popo to be able to communicate during the next day or so.

Or some local landowners not happy about the lease payments they're not getting for having the antennas on their (illegally obtained) land.

Or some environmental crazies that want to quit wearing their tin foil hats that shield them from Cellular Radiation (just made that up).

Or government actors that don't want the locals communicating during some kind of action on their part, but want the blame to be placed elsewhere.

Too many possibilities, and we'll never know what really happened.

[lemonjelly]

Ignorant people wanting to keep everyone in their area in the stone age...Thailand needs to bring in an "A" team from another country to go in and take these criminals out...after more than 10 years of negotiations...its is time to think outside the box...

Or some drug dealers making a big haul that night and they don't want the popo to be able to communicate during the next day or so.

Or some local landowners not happy about the lease payments they're not getting for having the antennas on their (illegally obtained) land.

Or some environmental crazies that want to quit wearing their tin foil hats that shield them from Cellular Radiation (just made that up).

Or government actors that don't want the locals communicating during some kind of action on their part, but want the blame to be placed elsewhere.

Too many possibilities, and we'll never know what really happened.

Yes, many possibilities, yet one has to make a calculated guess.

[surangw]

now they are in big trouble, they are messing with the real powers that be.

[Halion]

Just a little civil unrest. Isolated and irrelevant. Nothing to be concerned about. Authorities have it all under control as they have done for the past 30 years. A country in denial.

[Ricardo]

But if the mobile-phones don't work, how ever will the terrorists political-activists set off their motorbike-bombs ?

[NongKhaiKid]

But if the mobile-phones don't work, how ever will the terrorists political-activists set off their motorbike-bombs ?

Well done Mohammed you have just destroyed our trigger mechanisms so we are sending you out to personally light all the blue touch paper.

Oh and after the last one no need to bother retiring, you are surplus to requirements so time to become a martyr.

[Ricardo]

But if the mobile-phones don't work, how ever will the terrorists political-activists set off their motorbike-bombs ?

Well done Mohammed you have just destroyed our trigger mechanisms so we are sending you out to personally light all the blue touch paper.

Oh and after the last one no need to bother retiring, you are surplus to requirements so time to become a martyr.

Yep, I have a mental-image of someone back at HQ, having a Homer Simpson style "Doh !" moment !

[AGareth2]

Just a little civil unrest. Isolated and irrelevant. Nothing to be concerned about. Authorities have it all under control as they have done for the past 30 years. A country in denial.

5,634 deaths & 10,554 injuries in insurgency related incidents in #Thailand’s Deep South since 1 January 2004

[Sayonarax]

Ignorant people wanting to keep everyone in their area in the stone age...Thailand needs to bring in an "A" team from another country to go in and take these criminals out...after more than 10 years of negotiations...its is time to think outside the box...

You must be a retired a police officer, cause your detective skills are amazing.

[lemonjelly]

Ignorant people wanting to keep everyone in their area in the stone age...Thailand needs to bring in an "A" team from another country to go in and take these criminals out...after more than 10 years of negotiations...its is time to think outside the box..

.... or why not the X-Men, ..Iron Man... the SAS..... thinking outside of the box and daydreaming aren't the same thing.

[JacChang]

What happens to my trueif on Monday?