Situation in southern border provinces has improved: Deputy premier

BANGKOK, 6 July 2016 (NNT) -The situation in Thailand’s southern border provinces has improved despite intermittent unrests during Ramadan period, said Deputy Prime Minister/ Defense Minister Prawit Wongsuwan.

He said that he had assigned the Fourth Army Region to investigate the explosion at Rue So district railway in Narathiwat province.

Since the scene was far from communities where police, military officers and government officials were closely monitoring the situation, the deputy premier said.

However, the number of untoward incidents in the southern border provinces has decreased so far this year though many may have occurred at the end of Ramadan, he said.


-- NNT 2016-07-06

Improved ???

Obviously due to the threat of hundreds of vocational students decending upon them.

Unelected DMP Pawtwit track record shows only the good parts are ever made public , mostly this person talks out of his A!!se.............................. .

"BANGKOK: -- Thai insurgent attacks have surged in Ramadan, with the latest bombing coming in a week that has also seen bloodshed in Turkey, Malaysia, Bangladesh, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Indonesia""

Has dumpy and grumpy visited the south since they seize power? Sure everything is safe from your cocoon and protected world.

...hope they don't forget to inform the inhabitants....

To the deputy prime minister: the situation in the southernmost border provinces will never resolve itself until the militants get what they want.

Either accept that or change your strategy, because as the current 12+ year battle shows, Thailand is losing its grip on this part of the country.

"Situation in southern border provinces has improved: Deputy premier"

You know you can trust us when we say there is no insurgency, just a few misfits who aren't real Thais anyway, so they don't matter...

And please vote for our draft constitution because you know we take good care of all Thais. The ones we don't assault or kill at least.

You know you can trust the 'Royal' Thai Army.

Winnie

You got to be joking...

despite intermittent unrests

And there in a short, simple statement is the root of the Thai Royal Military's decades of resistance to any peace negotiations with the Malay-Thai insurgency - it's just unrest. Just people being lawbreakers committing crimes against the State. To the insurgents it has been an issue of sovereignty and one that only the Yingluck regime was willing to address in peace negotiations in spite of the military's indifference at best and interference at worst.

Prawit's statement clearly reflects the end of any viable peace negotiations by the Prayut regime with the insurgents. No doubt the next elected government will once again have to answer to the RTM in any further peace negotiations. And so the violence will continue unabated.

From Google:-

July 5, 2016 : A car bomb at a military checkpoint blew up on Tuesday afternoon local time in the south Thailand city of Pattani, injuring several police officers.

July 4, 2016 : One traffic policeman was killed and three other people were injured when a bomb exploded near the Pattani Central Mosque in Pattani.

July 3, 2016 : Two men were killed in a bombing and shooting attack in Thailand’s southern province of Yala’s Bannang Sata district on July 3. On the same day, train services in the far south were suspended after two bombs went off, damaging a portion of the main southern railway track connecting Yala and Narathiwat provinces.

No one was injured as no train was passing the area when the bombs detonated.

June 26, 2016 : A car bomb explosion Sunday morning in Sungai Kolok of Thailand's restive southern province of Narathiwat injured two men and caused damage to some shops, an epa journalist on the scene reports.

Cannot find any terrorist activity between June 10 - 26, 2016.

June 9, 2016 : Two senior military officers and five civilians were injured following a motorcycle bomb blast on a highway in Pattani province’s Nong Chik district in southern Thailand.

June 8, 2016: A village chief and his assistant have been killed in Thailand’s Muslim south in an attack by suspected insurgents in troubled Narathiwat province.

June 6, 2016: Eight people killed and 36 injured in shootings and improvised explosive device (IED) attacks across Thailand's southern provinces of Narathiwat, Yala, and Pattani.

June 5, 2016: In the south (Pattani province) Islamic terrorists, using an AK-47 and riding a motorcycle, fired at a policeman standing outside a store. They wounded the cop but hit five civilians as well. This was believed to have been retaliation for a recent attack on an Islamic terrorist camp in the area.

June 2, 2016: In the south (Narathiwat province) a combined force of fifty soldiers, police and local defense volunteers raided a remote Islamic terrorists camp, killed four Islamic terrorists, seized weapons and ammo and destroyed the many (nearly twenty) structures found. Local police and troops were alerted to set up checkpoints and look for wounded Islamic terrorists who may have fled as well as unwounded Islamic terrorists trying to pass as civilians. Local defense volunteers can often spot the strangers and have them held for questioning. Often the police find these suspects are wanted.

June 1, 2016: In the south (Pattani province) police raided a rural camp used by Islamic terrorists and killed five of the armed men they found there. One policeman was killed in the brief firefight and several Islamic terrorists got away.

I'm 100% sure that the PM promised back in 2014 that by 2015 the insurgency in the South would be over.

I'm 100% sure that the PM promised back in 2014 that by 2015 the insurgency in the South would be over.

It is nearly over yes: he closed his eyes instead of reading the news and did not see any report: it's a improvement