Southern separatist banners mock 'Happiness' policy

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Southern Separatist Banners Mock 'Happiness' Policy
By Khaosod Engkish


An EOD team looks for bombs near the banners.

NARATHIWAT — Police discovered four banners in Narathiwat province this morning that threaten to launch more attacks on Buddhist civilians and state officials in the insurgency-plagued region.

The roadside banners were spotted in three Narathiwat districts at around 7.30 am today. Objects that resemble explosives were also placed next to each banner, but they turned out to be fake.

The banners read, in Thai:

"As long as the policy of 'Returning Happiness to the People' is still about aiming gun barrels at religious leaders, communities, Muslim clerics, and innocent Malay brothers and sisters, Buddhist civilians, bureaucrats, and teachers should not hope that they will be the last dead bodies."

Police suspect the banners were hung by Islamic insurgents who have been staging attacks on security forces and civilians in the Malaysian-border provinces of Narathiwat, Yala, and Pattani, for the past decade.

Last week, a 25-year-old man was injured by a homemade bomb planted at the foot of a banner that expressed support for an independent state comprised of the three southern border provinces.

Full story: http://www.khaosodenglish.com/detail.php?newsid=1416291678


-- Khaosod English 2014-11-18

[The stuttering parrot]

It really doesn't matter who's in charge in Thailand extremists with their warped sense of the world will not negotiate .

They are just scum that murder innocent men women and children and cowardly hide behind a religion that twist to try and justify their actions.

[Costas2008]

"Police suspect the banners were hung by Islamic insurgents who have been staging attacks on security forces and civilians in the Malaysian-border provinces of Narathiwat, Yala, and Pattani, for the past decade."

I do admire the intelligence of these policemen.

[peptidebomber]

Please please tell the that the army hierarchy are not forcing soldiers to continue to use the GT200 to search for bombs as looks like in this picture?

[peptidebomber]

Please please tell the that the army hierarchy are not forcing soldiers to continue to use the GT200 to search for bombs as looks like in this picture?

[Reigntax]

Please please tell the that the army hierarchy are not forcing soldiers to continue to use the GT200 to search for bombs as looks like in this picture?

No these guys are just searching for their lost golf balls from last weekends round. If they were searching for bombs they would have loaded the " explosives card" rather than the "no balls" card.

[Eric Loh]

Real need for the southern separists to report to the barracks for some attitude adjustment.

[Kudel]

Real need for the southern separists to report to the barracks for some attitude adjustment.

To do what?Give them weapons,tactics and explosives training most of those muslim terrorists like those is boys where trained by foreign armys.

[vogie]

"Police suspect the banners were hung by Islamic insurgents who have been staging attacks on security forces and civilians in the Malaysian-border provinces of Narathiwat, Yala, and Pattani, for the past decade."

I do admire the intelligence of these policemen.

Yes, when all they have to do now is to read Thai Visa and get the real truth.

[bluebluewater]

Please please tell the that the army hierarchy are not forcing soldiers to continue to use the GT200 to search for bombs as looks like in this picture?

I believe the GT2000 is a small hand held device which I don't see there. The one cop/soldier looks to have more of a metal detector of some sort?

Note: The fire hydrant is safe as it has it's helmet on!

Edited November 18, 2014 by bluebluewater

[rickirs]

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Please please tell the that the army hierarchy are not forcing soldiers to continue to use the GT200 to search for bombs as looks like in this picture?

Soldiers have little choice in the matter.

2013-04-25

"Thailand's army chief general Prayuth Chan-ocha has asked the public to stop making comments or criticisms about the controversial bomb detector GT200 procurement.

He added that the army has already stopped using the devices for 2-3 years. However, he admitted that some military personnel still use them since there is no other alternative instrument."

The Nation 2013-04-26

"The Royal Thai Police, the Navy and the Air Force will not be pressing charges against suppliers of the fake GT200 and Alpha 6 bomb detectors, a source from the Department of Special Investigation said yesterday.

The source said the agencies had purchased the GT200s, but after a British court ruled that the devices were hoaxes, the three agencies declined to come forward to file complaints that they had been cheated.

Army commander-in-chief General Prayuth Chan-ocha said reporters should stop attacking the Army over the GT200 procurements."

[Chris Lawrence]

Please please tell the that the army hierarchy are not forcing soldiers to continue to use the GT200 to search for bombs as looks like in this picture?

No they test it by stomping on the ground.

Didn't the general give his blessing on these machines?

[Chris Lawrence]

'Thai response to the insurgency has been hampered by clumsy methods, a lack of training in counter-insurgency, a lack of understanding of local culture, and rivalries between the police and the army. Many local policemen are allegedly involved in the local drug trade and other criminal activities, and army commanders from Bangkok treat them with disdain. Often the army responded to the attacks with heavy-handed raids to search Muslim villages, which only resulted in reprisals. Insurgents provoked the inexperienced Thai government into disproportionate responses, generating sympathy among the Muslim populace.' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Thailand_insurgency

The above link gives an insight to what has happened down south.

Don't agree with terrorists.

There are cultural and economic issues that need addressing. I also think they need to separate the different insurgents groups to get support in the area.

[rickirs]

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Please please tell the that the army hierarchy are not forcing soldiers to continue to use the GT200 to search for bombs as looks like in this picture?

Gen. Prayuth "admitted that some military personnel still use them since there is no other alternative instrument."

Dying or being maimed by a bomb blast doesn't seem to be much of an alternative.

[maidee]

so why not flood the region with a military, one in front of every door ...

would it not be easy to spot who leaves their house with guns & bombs ?