Fire guts school building in Pattani
Thai PBS

PATTANI -- A fire broke out at a building of Ban Nam Dam School in Thung Yang Daeng district of Pattani early Thursday, but caused no injuries, police said.

Pol Col Mana Dechawarit, the Thung Yang Daeng police chief, said the fire started at about 3.30 am, burning down the wooden structures of the building, chairs, desks and teaching equipment. Nobody was hurt.

The damage had yet to be assessed.

Police were investigating the cause of the fire. However, police initially believed it was caused by a power short-circuit since the building was about 25 years old and had nothing to do with insurgency in the South.

Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/fire-guts-school-building-in-pattani

-- Thai PBS 2015-12-31

"police initially believed it was caused by a power short-circuit since the building was about 25 years old and had nothing to do with insurgency in the South."

so they are already ruling it as a "Suicide"

...what a shame...

A lesson to be learnt there me thinks, but then it was a school

The Malay-Thai insurgency is more than showing the Thai government and military that it is capable of violent acts. But I don't expect any Thai news media to really dig into the root of issues that motivate the insurgency to violence beyond a label of "nationalism." Given the current limitations and "permissions" on freedom of the press and speech, reporters can only use very broad strokes of the pen to avoid retaliation.

Consider the subject schools.

The insurgents may view teachers (and by extension their schools) as symbols of Thai oppression and indoctrination of Malay-Thai children into a Buddhist State attendant with 800 years of Thai tradition, language, religion, culture and customs. One might imagine that, as with Thai schools throughout the nation, Malay-Thai children are taught (in Thai only) loyalty to the nation by things such as Prayut's 12 Values, Prayut's new patriotic song, Buddhist practice and custom, etc.

Some people may argue that if the insurgents don't like assimulation of Malay-Thai children into the Kingdom of Thailand, that they should go back to where they came from. But that would be right where they live now. They probably would rather see Thais go back to where they came from instead.

So the burning of these schools may be just the tip of a flame coming from a bonfire lit by a suppressed people.

"police initially believed it was caused by a power short-circuit since the building was about 25 years old and had nothing to do with insurgency in the South."

so they are already ruling it as a "Suicide"

Are they?

The Malay-Thai insurgency is more than showing the Thai government and military that it is capable of violent acts. But I don't expect any Thai news media to really dig into the root of issues that motivate the insurgency to violence beyond a label of "nationalism." Given the current limitations and "permissions" on freedom of the press and speech, reporters can only use very broad strokes of the pen to avoid retaliation.

Consider the subject schools.

The insurgents may view teachers (and by extension their schools) as symbols of Thai oppression and indoctrination of Malay-Thai children into a Buddhist State attendant with 800 years of Thai tradition, language, religion, culture and customs. One might imagine that, as with Thai schools throughout the nation, Malay-Thai children are taught (in Thai only) loyalty to the nation by things such as Prayut's 12 Values, Prayut's new patriotic song, Buddhist practice and custom, etc.

Some people may argue that if the insurgents don't like assimulation of Malay-Thai children into the Kingdom of Thailand, that they should go back to where they came from. But that would be right where they live now. They probably would rather see Thais go back to where they came from instead.

So the burning of these schools may be just the tip of a flame coming from a bonfire lit by a suppressed people.

Yes, yes chaos and mayhem awaits......