A resolute denial clouds Thailand blast probes

[webfact]

A resolute denial clouds Thailand blast probes

Tan Hui Yee, Thailand Correspondent

 

BANGKOK - Bombs go off with mind-numbing regularity in Thailand's southern border provinces. They are placed in motorcycles, trucks and under rail tracks.

 

Most are detonated more to shock than kill - unless you happen to be a soldier, policeman, or someone deemed by separatist insurgents to have acted against the interests of the Malay-Muslim majority there.

 

Yet last week, four-year-old Mitra Wohbah and her father died when a bomb went off in front of her school. It triggered a stronger than usual outcry from locals, having come after a relative drop in civilian casualties in the longstanding conflict that has claimed more than 6,000 lives so far.

 

Full story: http://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/a-resolute-denial-clouds-thailand-blast-probes

 

-- THE STRAITS TIMES 2016-09-15

[ChrisY1]

"Most are detonated more to shock than kill "

Crazy analogy!..........Never ever heard of any terrorist that makes, places and detonates a bomb so as not to cause harm.......

[Rc2702]

RIP to father and daughter and 6000+

 

 

[Retiredandhappyhere]

What are we humans doing to each other?  Just look at all the conflicts going on in the world just now, many of which are people within their own  country fighting each other.  After thousands are killed and thousands more injured or left grieving, is anything positive ever achieved?  

[Srikcir]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

A resolute denial clouds Thailand blast probes

What is the denial?

[jamesbrock]

4 hours ago, ChrisY1 said:

"Most are detonated more to shock than kill "

Crazy analogy!..........Never ever heard of any terrorist that makes, places and detonates a bomb so as not to cause harm.......

 

Koh Samui, April 2015. Car bomb detonated in a reinforced concrete basement carpark around 11pm, when there were hardly any shops open, and even less cars in said car park. Do you really think that that bomb was placed with maximum casualties in mind? That the bombers couldn't have found a more crowded place in Chaweng on a Friday night the an almost deserted reinforced basement car park?

 

1 hour ago, Srikcir said:

What is the denial?

 

"Even on Tuesday (Sept 13) - after police had already issued six warrants of arrest for suspects, all from the deep south - key officials continued casting doubt on the possibility that southern insurgents could have orchestrated the August attacks.

 

Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha said: "I don't any potential (threat) from them. If we drag that (BRN) name in, wouldn't it risk other countries' intervention?""

 

Obviously, apart from the obvious reasons noted in the article,  if the govt were to accept the southern insurgents were responsible, how could they blame the bogeyman in Dubai?

Edited September 15, 2016 by jamesbrock

[CGW]

3 hours ago, Retiredandhappyhere said:

What are we humans doing to each other?  Just look at all the conflicts going on in the world just now, many of which are people within their own  country fighting each other.  After thousands are killed and thousands more injured or left grieving, is anything positive ever achieved?  

 

Ask the politicians that incite or start all the wars, they have an agenda and consider that killing is justified to meet their goals!

[Acharn]

7 hours ago, ChrisY1 said:

"Most are detonated more to shock than kill "

Crazy analogy!..........Never ever heard of any terrorist that makes, places and detonates a bomb so as not to cause harm.......

 

Probably because you don't really think about the subject. They don't place bombs "so as not to cause harm," they place them where they are more likely to kill enemies than people they want to help through their revolution. I still haven't figured out why they don't set off more in Bangkok, or why they don't make greater efforts to get credit for them. This isn't the way revolutionaries learned how to do it in the '60s.

[tukkytuktuk]

From the article in the O.P.

More surprisingly, this person from a BRN combat unit called Runda Kumpulan Kecil went on to claim that it was also responsible for the coordinated bombings and arson in tourist districts across seven Thai provinces outside the restive region on August 11 and 12. They wanted to make a point about the stagnant peace talks in the south, he said.

Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha said: "I don't any potential (threat) from them. If we drag that (BRN) name in, wouldn't it risk other countries' intervention?"

From an article in Forbes magazine about building a wall at the border.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/ralphjennings/2016/09/11/who-would-bang-their-heads-if-malaysia-and-thailand-built-a-border-wall/

According to the Terrorism Monitor, militants in one elusive group called Runda Kumpulan Kecil flee to Malaysia after bombings, arson and murders in Thailand.

These types would find it harder to sneak over the notoriously porous land border as they do now, writes Ralph Jennings in the Forbes report.

Maybe the Thai government doesn't want to build a wall. It would be very expensive and might damage trade between the two countries, with exports and imports worth $22 billion per year. Money number 1.