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DPM Prawit asks security agencies to exercise patience when dealing with southern issues

 

 

BANGKOK, 8th May 2017 (NNT) - Deputy Prime Minister Gen Prawit Wongsuwan has asked security agencies in southernmost provinces to exercise patience and adhere to the rule of law when dealing with southern unrest. 

DPM and Minister for Defense Gen Prawit said he had instructed all related agencies in the restive south to maintain peace and order, protect innocent lives, protect human rights, always exercise patience, and respect of law when it comes to dealing with violence and conflicts. 

Relaying the prime minister’s message, he said Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha is concerned about the safety and well being of southern residents as well as security personnel serving in the violence-torn areas. 

The Internal Security Operations Command (ISOC) has been ordered to work closely with intelligence units and community volunteers to achieve better work efficiency while utilizing efforts by local officers to keep violence at bay. 

He also stressed the importance of public participation, saying whether it’s security or development operations, getting all stakeholders involved is the key element to success.

 

-- nnt 2017-05-08

[jerojero]

They have no idea how to deal with the ongoing issues in the South.

[TheFishman1]

Joking right TIT

[Srikcir]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

getting all stakeholders involved is the key element to success.

Nonsense.

The military repeatedly chooses to ridicule and ignore the largest insurgency group BNR in any peace negotiations and bypass them in creation of ISOC's projects such as its so-called "Safe Zones."

[elgordo38]

6 hours ago, webfact said:

DPM and Minister for Defense Gen Prawit said he had instructed all related agencies in the restive south to maintain peace and order, protect innocent lives, protect human rights, always exercise patience, and respect of law when it comes to dealing with violence and conflicts. 

One of the greatest orators on the planet bar none

[Stargeezr]

Make the deep south into a happy zone, then there will be no crime, as everybody will be happy.

  Yes   this might work, except we do not live in a fairy tale,  in real life those insurgents are traiters for killing

their fellow country men and women and kids.

Geezer

[Srikcir]

39 minutes ago, Stargrazer9889 said:

in real life those insurgents are traiters

To whom are the Muslim insurgents traitors - the Buddhist Kingdom of Thailand?

[Stargeezr]

They are traiters for killing fellow Muslim Thais, or who do you think is being killed in the south. It is not just Buddhist

people livng in the south who have been killed by these animals.  That is why they should not have any support for their so call

cause for their fighting and killing .

Geezer

[Srikcir]

I don't support quid pro quo of violence against innocent civilians by either the insurgents OR Thai military - the latter doing so with immunity from prosecution. Both have repeatedly rejected UN accusations of human rights violations.

 

Do note that some civilians who support the military's suppression of Muslims in the southern provinces in the role of paramilitary, defense volunteers and military informants are frequent retribution targets of the insurgents. But who is there elsewhere in Thailand that would dare to demonstrate, much less take violence against the military's suppression of Muslims in the southern provinces?

 

Compare the 30-year failed track record of the Thai military to establish a peace accord with the Muslim insurgents to that of the Philippines who faced 40 years of Muslim Moros insurgency in the Mindanao region. Their historical grievances were very similar to the Thai Muslim insurgency - both preceded forced rule by non-Muslim governments as part of independent Islamic sultanates. In 2014 the Moro Islamic Liberation Front finalized a peace deal with the Philippine government. http://news.trust.org//spotlight/Philippines-Mindanao-conflict/?tab=briefing

 

So one might ask whether the Thai military shares the blame for "traitor."