One died and two injured in M79 shelling at police station in Yala

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One died and two injured in M79 shelling at police station in Yala



YALA: -- Violence continued in the South last night with the militants firing two M79 grenades at a police station in Bannang Sata district and torching telecommunication poles on Highway 410 from Yala to Betong district.

The grenades missed the police station, landed and exploded on Highway 410 near in front of a mosque which is opposite the station.

One local, a 65-year-old man died from serious wound at Yala hospital centre.

Two others, a 20-year-old resident and an 11-year-old boy were injured.

They were leaving the mosque after an evening prayer.

The three were admitted to Bannang Sata district hospital and at Yala hospital centre.

The 65-year-old man died later at Yala hospital.

Meanwhile, southern militants also burnt car tyres on Highway 418 from Yala to Pattani, and torched telecommunication poles of TOT Plc and DTAC on Highway 409 from Yala to Ban Nieng, causing damages to several transmission cables.

Fire engines were rushed to put out fires at several poles outside the town, but with extreme caution as they feared it could be a trap to lure authorities to their bomb targets.

Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/one-died-and-two-injured-in-m79-shelling-at-police-station-in-yala/

-- Thai PBS 2016-07-05

[daoyai]

just the locals celebrating the end of ramadan, nothing to get woked up about

[Srikcir]

A synopsis of the Junta’s peace negotiation efforts with the Malay-Thai insurgents since the May 2014 coup:

August 2015 - BRN representative Sukree Hari said Mara Patani submitted three preliminary proposals as a condition for peace. One was that the Thai government must place the negotiations on the national agenda, which would bring them to the parliament, thus ensuring changes in Thailand’s government would not disrupt the process, as happened the last time talks were brokered.

September 2015 – Prayut said there was no need to make the talks a national agenda because it already exists on the national agenda. However, it has never been submitted to the NLA for consideration.

October 2015 – BRN further requested that the peace negotiations dialogue must include international mediators and observers. Defence Minister General Prawit rejected BRN’s condition for international observers.

March 2016 - General Aksara Kerdphol, chief of the government’s negotiating team claimed that informal talks between the two sides were progressing satisfactorily with the government side having setting out all the pre-conditions.

April 2016 - Informal has been dealt with a big blow after Prime Minister Prayut Chan-ocha made it clear that regarding informal peace talks between the government and southern separatist groups under the umbrella organization of Mara, the government will not talk with any organization or group which still resorts to armed rebellion and does not respect the law.

So long as the Junta continues to approach peace negotiations with the Malay-Thai insurgency as strictly a security issue, there will be no significant peace progress and violence will continue. As the military has proven with Yingluck’s peace negotiations, the military will be the “decider” to any peace terms and not any elected civilian government.

[halloween]

If they need a negotiator, Chalerm seems to be at a loose end. Probably only cost a couple of cases of JWB.

[tuanku]

M79 grenades in all probability stolen from the RTA