Security officials meet with Prawit in Hat Yai

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Security officials meet with Prawit in Hat Yai
The Nation

HAT YAI: -- Deputy PM and Defence Minister General Prawit Wongsuwan chaired a meeting in Hat Yai yesterday with national security officials from 14 southern provinces to discuss implementation of National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) policy.

Accompanied by senior officials, Prawit also met ordinary citizens and presided over a ceremony to welcome three repentant insurgent sympathisers who joined the "Pha Khon Klab Ban" (Bringing people home) campaign at the Front Command of the Internal Security Operations Command (ISOC).

He was told that 1,097 former sympathisers had participated in the campaign over two months and that about 3,000 fugitives had been reintegrated into society since it was set up in 2012. The campaign provides legal assistance and vocational training to participants.

Meanwhile, an unknown assailant on a motorcycle threw a M26 grenade at a traffic police booth at a railway crossing in Narathiwat's Rusoh district yesterday. Although the grenade didn't explode, the subsequent inspection by police and a bomb-disposal team forced three trains to delay their schedules by up to two hours. The incident, which occurred at 10.40am while 10 traffic police were cleaning athe booth area, is suspected to be part of ongoing unrest in the South.

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-- The Nation 2015-12-22

[Eric Loh]

I thought the hotbed of southern insurgency is in Pattani not Hatyai. Will be highly symbolic to have the meeting in Pattani unless he is sc...

[Srikcir]

The problem of getting a peace with the insurgents may be that Malay-Thais do not want to be reintegrated into a Buddhist Thai society.

The Thai military only sees the conflict as one of nationalism. But it goes far beyond that in terms of heritage, culture, language, tradition, and religion.