BRN says it was behind Mother's Day bombings: Report

[snoop1130]

BRN says it was behind Mother's Day bombings: Report

By Teeranai Charuvastra, Staff Reporter

 

Police on Tuesday inspect wreckage of a motorcycle bomb that exploded in front of Ban Ta Ba School in Pattani province, killing two people.

 

BANGKOK — A secretive separatist group in the southern border region has taken responsibility for last month’s bombing attacks in the south of Thailand, according to a state-run Malaysian news agency.

 

In an unprecedented move, an unnamed commander in the National Revolution Front, or BRN, told BenarNews it was behind not only Tuesday’s bomb attack at a school in Pattani province, but the spree of bomb and arson attacks in seven provinces that killed four people during the Mother’s Day holiday in August.

 

Full Story: http://www.khaosodenglish.com/politics/2016/09/07/brn-says-behind-mothers-day-bombing-report/

 

-- © Copyright Khaosod English 2016-09-07

[jamesbrock]

Well well well, Father Fintan Stack called this... 

 

(Well, IHS Jane’s Anthony Davis did, but Father posted it. )

Edited September 7, 2016 by jamesbrock
Clarification

[Wilsonandson]

http://www.benarnews.org/english/news/thai/Tak-Bai-bombing-09062016174412.html

Original source Benar news.

The BRN is represented on the panel but its membership has been divided over pursing formal peace talks with Thailand’s military government.

“We want to respond to the talks that made no progress …,” the RKK leader said, adding. “[T]he government does not show their sincerity for a real peace.”

He said his unit did not intend to kill civilians but was targeting police officers.

Edited September 7, 2016 by Wilsonandson

[Thailand]

Not the admission that the ptb wanted to hear for at least a couple of reasons.

[metisdead]

An off topic baiting post has been removed. 

[Wilsonandson]

46 minutes ago, jamesbrock said:

Well well well, Father Fintan Stack called this... 

 

(Well, IHS Jane’s Anthony Davis did, but Father posted it. )

The whole world called it when they first knew of the bombings! My 77 year old mum called it when I called her 3 days after the bombing.

"It's the muslims in the south" she said. Everyone knew what was going down. Except those who listen like sheep to every BS thing our dear leader spouts to us over the loud speakers everyday in happyland.

[HappyDazed]

according to a state-run Malaysian news agency.....and unnamed commander said

 

 

Then it must be true.

 

[jamesbrock]

36 minutes ago, Wilsonandson said:

The whole world called it when they first knew of the bombings! My 77 year old mum called it when I called her 3 days after the bombing.

"It's the muslims in the south" she said. Everyone knew what was going down. Except those who listen like sheep to every BS thing our dear leader spouts to us over the loud speakers everyday in happyland.

 

Geez, settle down there. Funny how the day after it happened you posted a Sun story titled "WHO DID IT?" Where they discussed the likely suspects as Bangkok bombers, Anti-government movement, Red-shirts, or ISIS—no mention of "the muslims in the south."

 

Indeed, the very first post you made that mentioned the BRN was the Antony Davis story I credited Father Fintan with - an entire week after Father Fintan posted it!

 

As far as I can recall, Father Fintan was the first to specifically finger the BRN, as opposed to just "Muslims in the south" - don't know what about that upset you so much.

Edited September 7, 2016 by jamesbrock

[JAG]

12 minutes ago, Father Fintan Stack said:

Are the junta still lying to the public as to who were the perpetrators?

Do bears sh** in the woods?

[NongKhaiKid]

14 minutes ago, Father Fintan Stack said:

Are the junta still lying to the public as to who were the perpetrators?

All down to what suits their purposes best, the truth etc is a mere incidental.

[jamesbrock]

55 minutes ago, NongKhaiKid said:

All down to what suits their purposes best, the truth etc is a mere incidental.

 

Or possibly due to saving face? On 24 August BP reported that Prawit "again" denied BRN involvement in the bombings.

 

Apparently he cited no other evidence other than the government team leading the peace talks had told him so.

 

It must be embarrassing, now, that they've all but admitted it!

[robblok]

2 hours ago, JAG said:

Do bears sh** in the woods?

 

No in Thailand they use squat toilets, they are better behaved than American bears.

 

Seems it was the southern muslims, in all my posts I have always said they were the nr 1 suspect. Will be hard for the junta to deny it with the BNR taking responsibility. 

 

Unless they find real hard evidence and get suspects that point a total different direction. Its known to happen that terrorist claim things they have not done (unlikely in this case)

[Baerboxer]

2 hours ago, NongKhaiKid said:

All down to what suits their purposes best, the truth etc is a mere incidental.

 

Not sure the truth here is recognized as anything more than a sometimes inconvenience - in any cases.

[Lupatria]

I miss this comment in the news:

The unnamed commander in the National Revolution Front will not be able to answer anymore questions or make further statements as he is too busy to oversee the construction of 3 new mansions for his wives...

[Srikcir]

15 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

A secretive separatist group in the southern border region

BRN is hardly secretive.

[spidermike007]

If this is true, perhaps it is even more relevant than ever, to find a lasting solution to this problem. As much as many do not want to admit, these four or five provinces were part of the Sultanate of Malay, only a little over 100 years ago. The Republic of Patani. They are ethnic Malay provinces. A brief history follows. Unless Thailand begins to deal with these long standing historical issues of identity, there may never be a solution. Could the problem spread? Of course it could. Will it? It is anybody's guess. But, ignoring it and treating the area a s a bastard child is not helping one iota. No creativity has been brought to bear, with regard to finding any solutions. It is nearly a police state down there. Remind anyone of the West Bank? 

 

In recent years, ‘Deep-south’ Thailand is a term has come to be commonly used to refer to an area in Southern Thailand which have been affected by violence since late 2003. The area covers four southernmost provinces of Thailand; Songkhla, Pattani, Yala and Narathiwat, bordering northern Malaysia. The majority of the population of this region are Malay-speaking Muslims, yet the area has long been ethnically and religiously diverse, with Thai Buddhist, Chinese and indigenous people living together for hundreds of years. Pattani, Yala and Narathiwat were once known as an integrated Malay kingdom called Patani, having a long history of trade and cultural contact with powers in the North in the Thai basin and to the South in the Indonesian archipelago. As an autonomous polity, Patani had a loose tributary relation with Thailand (then Siam) since the 16thcentury, but when the political climate of the two polities changed in 1810s, Thailand attempted to assert control over her southern periphery by separating Patani into seven small states, each ruled by a hereditary sultan. During the last decade of the 1800s and the turn of the 20th century, Patani saw a tremendous change in its political sphere as a Thai royal commissioner was appointed to strengthen control over local rulers. In 1906 the position of the sultan was abolished and seven Malay­ states were reorganized again as Monthon Pattani under the direct jurisdiction of the central government in Bangkok, marking the end of Patani as a sultanate state. A traditional tributary­ sent to Bangkok in the form of ornamental tree made of gold and silver, and other local products were abolished. Needless to say, this process provoked discontentment among Malay elites which fostered and led to a separatist movement in 1950s and in the following years, a militant insurgency by radical Muslims in the southernmost part of Thailand that has continued into the present (Aphornsuvan 2007).

 

http://www.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/2014/05/viewing-deep-south-thailand-from-a-historical-perspective/

 

[hansnl]

3 hours ago, robblok said:

 

No in Thailand they use squat toilets, they are better behaved than American bears.

 

Seems it was the southern muslims, in all my posts I have always said they were the nr 1 suspect. Will be hard for the junta to deny it with the BNR taking responsibility. 

 

Unless they find real hard evidence and get suspects that point a total different direction. Its known to happen that terrorist claim things they have not done (unlikely in this case)

You said it.

Claims for terror are freely made.

Even a well known terror group in the west, was paid to inflict terror while the deed was claimed by others.

Indeed, proof is needed, claims mean nothing.

As in this case.

I would not be overly surprised if somebody was paid to do something and somebody else was paid to claim.

Devious, very devious.

And besides, taqqiya is if course accepted when dealing with unbelievers.

 

The lateness of the claim might mean something?

[sujoop]

Perhaps Mr Thaksin could assist the investigation as it's reported that he met with BRN leaders several times overseas and they 'trust' him:
http://www.bt.com.bn/2013/03/11/thai-rebel-group-trusts-thaksin-peace-initiative

[Shawn0000]

17 hours ago, HappyDazed said:

according to a state-run Malaysian news agency.....and unnamed commander said

 

 

Then it must be true.

 

 

If it were not Muslim separatists then a Malaysian state news agency would not say it was them, it would not be in their interest to cause them a problem.

[HappyDazed]

12 minutes ago, Shawn0000 said:

 

 

Edited September 8, 2016 by HappyDazed

[HappyDazed]

11 minutes ago, Shawn0000 said:

 

If it were not Muslim separatists then a Malaysian state news agency would not say it was them,

 

Research the difference between 'hearsay' and 'verified fact'.

[Thailand]

33 minutes ago, sujoop said:

Perhaps Mr Thaksin could assist the investigation as it's reported that he met with BRN leaders several times overseas and they 'trust' him:
http://www.bt.com.bn/2013/03/11/thai-rebel-group-trusts-thaksin-peace-initiative

Come now ginjag this is just another of your "Thaksin did it" baiting posts.

[Shawn0000]

14 minutes ago, HappyDazed said:

 

Research the difference between 'hearsay' and 'verified fact'.

 

Find me an announcement by a terrorist group anywhere in the world that can be verified as a fact.

[HappyDazed]

14 minutes ago, Shawn0000 said:

 

Find me an announcement by a terrorist group anywhere in the world that can be verified as a fact.

 

I knew you would get there in the end.......