Thai editorial: A bad start to the battle for hearts and minds

[joecoolfrog]

Is there overwhelming local support in the 3 provinces for seperatism ?

[englishoak]

Don't forget the air drop over the South of one million origami "birds of peace" during the Thaksin era.

Didn't work.

Ahh yes that, my daughters school had every single child doing 1000 of the stupid things for homework, poor things spent every spare minute for months on that dumbass idea and aided the decision ending my daughters relationship with the Thai education system very shortly after.

[chooka]

The only "hearts & minds" this Junta has won are the Bangkok elite's!

So the Bangkok elite is growing!! It now stands at 93,3% of the population!!(sarcasm)

They just have to win the hearts of the 6.7% in South. The Junta is now gifting free military weapons to them and they will have 110% of the population worshiping at thier feet very soon.

[chooka]

give every southener an ak 47 and the problem will solve itself

The general is actually doing that.

[lewy67]

give every southener an ak 47 and the problem will solve itself

As for the 3 southern border provinces of Pattani, Yala and Narathiwat, in which the majority of the people are Muslims, a recent census by the Ministry of Interior shows that the inhabitants of these provinces can be grouped by religion as follows :

Total

Muslim

1.4 million

Buddhist

.43 million

Christian

0.01 million

http://www.thaiembassy.org/riyadh/th/organize/29025-Muslim-in-Thailand.html

Do you really want to give every one of them an AK47?