Big C bomb suspects named

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Big C bomb suspects named

By PAREZ LOHASAN, 
NAKARIN CHINWORAKOMON 
THE NATION

 

 

‘MASTERMIND’ of Pattani car-bomb identified with eight accomplices, said to have fled to Yala.

 

ONE OF the suspects in the Big C Pattani car bomb explosion has identified eight accomplices, including the mastermind behind the attack that injured more than 60 people on Tuesday. 

 

Fourth Army Area chief Lt-General Piyawat Nakwanich yesterday released a list of the car-bomb suspects. 

 

The list is based on information from Su-ai-mee Sama-ae, who has been interrogated at a military base in Pattani province since his arrest on Thursday night. 

 

According to Su-ai-mee, Annungwa Kazor is the alleged mastermind, while Maolana Samoh and Abdul-aze Japakeeya are responsible for finding others to actually carry out the attack. 

 

He said that Isma-ae Morzu was in charge of getting the vehicle that would be used as the car bomb. Manasay Zyredee was tasked with assembling explosives and concealing them in the vehicle, alongside Muhammad Kazor. All along, Ruslan Baimor and Bukhori Lamzoh served as lookouts.

 

To get the vehicle for the plot, the gang allegedly lured Nuson Kajornkam, a tent-service provider from Yala province, to Pattani and killed him on Tuesday morning, according to Su-ai-mee. About five hours later, his pickup truck was packed with explosive-filled cylinders and parked in front of the Big C Pattani. 

 

Nuson left behind his wife, who is a nurse, and their two children. 

 

His widow, Sawitree Kachornkham, said yesterday that she did not want to live in Yala anymore because it was not safe, even in broad daylight. 

 

The death of her husband was a big blow. “I hope such a thing will never happen to anyone else. I really would like to ask the killer whether they have ever loved someone,” she said. 

 

Pattani Governor Weeranan Pengchan said all eight suspects implicated by Su-ai-mee had criminal records.

 

“They are wanted for many other crimes in Pattani and Yala,” he said. 

 

He added that the ongoing investigation suggested that the eight suspects had already fled to the neighbouring Yala province. 

 

Pattani Special Taskforce’s chief Maj-General Jatuporn Klampasut said that the chief executive of the Tambon Nong Chik Administrative Organisation and a local imam had been aware of Nuson’s killing. 

 

“At this point, there is no evidence that they directly took part in the robbery. So, we have just interviewed them for information. We have also questioned five locals for the same purpose,” Jatuporn said. 

 

Suspicious activities

 

Colonel Yuttanam Petchmuang, a deputy spokesman for the Forward Command of the Internal Security Operations Command Region 4, said Piyawat had already asked relevant authorities to gather evidence fast to bring all the culprits to justice. 

 

Following the explosion, an arrest warrant was issued for Makorseng Ma-ae, 25. But authorities are still searching for him. 

 

Yuttanam urged people to alert authorities if they detected any suspicious activities. 

 

HM King Maha Vajiralongkorn has assigned a delegate to provide flowers and gifts of support to victims at hospitals. 

 

Unrest has raged in Thailand’s deep South for more than a decade. Bloody incidents have taken place on almost a daily basis. 

 

Yesterday afternoon, more than 100 religious leaders, community leaders and locals joined a prayer in front of Big C Pattani to ask for peace. They condemned the use of violence, including the blast that hit the area a few days ago.

 

Meanwhile, the Sheikhul Islam Office has released a letter condemning the incidents in Pattani province that injured 61 innocent people when two bombs were detonated on Tuesday afternoon at a Big C store in Muang Pattani district. 

 

The office said that the vicious act had been designed to take innocent lives and thus violated the teachings of Islam, which clearly forbids such a crime. 

 

The Sheikhul Islam Office urged the perpetrators to refrain from engaging in further violence against local residents. 

 

The office also implored the government to do everything in its power to prevent such incidents from occurring, while providing assistance to victims and bringing the culprits to justice. 

 

The letter ends with a plea to the |administration to find peaceful solutions to end the violence that is plaguing the South, especially by means of promoting public |participation.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/news/national/30315073

 

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2017-05-13

[Stargeezr]

Bring these guys in for their justice and if no one admits to killing the owner of ther vehicle, then charge them all for murder.

What a bunch of scumbags.

Geezer

[bobmac10]

The main issue is the Thai buddhist population in the southern states are really an occupying population which will never be wholeheartedly accepted by the muslims.

No matter whether they have considered what life would be like under the control of a hardline muslim government or not, they automatically support the resistance against Thai rule due to their religious beliefs. This is drummed into them from childhood. The Thais are on a loser here, and need to cut them adrift before more lives are lost. 

[AhFarangJa]

55 minutes ago, bobmac10 said:

The main issue is the Thai buddhist population in the southern states are really an occupying population which will never be wholeheartedly accepted by the muslims.

No matter whether they have considered what life would be like under the control of a hardline muslim government or not, they automatically support the resistance against Thai rule due to their religious beliefs. This is drummed into them from childhood. The Thais are on a loser here, and need to cut them adrift before more lives are lost. 

I agree with your points, and see your reasoning, unfortunately though, these people breed like rabbits, and want to dominate wherever they are. They are also taught from an early age that Islam is the only way, and they must convert as many as possible. If they were given autonomy then one day they will run out of land and steadily move Northwards demanding more land, with the resulting violence following them. 

To be honest I cannot myself foresee a solution to the problem...

 

[TheGhostWithin]

1 hour ago, bobmac10 said:

The main issue is the Thai buddhist population in the southern states are really an occupying population which will never be wholeheartedly accepted by the muslims.

No matter whether they have considered what life would be like under the control of a hardline muslim government or not, they automatically support the resistance against Thai rule due to their religious beliefs. This is drummed into them from childhood. The Thais are on a loser here, and need to cut them adrift before more lives are lost. 

Though your views expressed may be used by some to justify murders and terrorist acts on individuals or small groups, this was a bombing at a major supermarket. 

 

The population in the south is 90% Muslim, so the act was 90% directed at moderate Muslims.

 

I can say with what I know (I have spent and still do spend considerable time in Yala and Pattani, having lived near Nong Chik before) that moderate Muslims are as much a target as Buddhists. It is not only the fact that Buddhists are the kaffir, but those not submitting their children to the Saudi and Malaysian sponsored Sharia schools that are targets. This is how it works in the south, exactly as res it does in Pakistan where Saudi Arabia sponsors the hard line Sharia schools which were the building blocks of the Taliban.

 

Buddhists, non-Sharia school Muslims, public school teachers, doctors, nurses, security, army and police are the real victims of this war - the pillars required to form any stable society, Isamic or not.

[connda]

3 hours ago, bobmac10 said:

The main issue is the Thai buddhist population in the southern states are really an occupying population which will never be wholeheartedly accepted by the muslims.

No matter whether they have considered what life would be like under the control of a hardline muslim government or not, they automatically support the resistance against Thai rule due to their religious beliefs. This is drummed into them from childhood. The Thais are on a loser here, and need to cut them adrift before more lives are lost. 

 

2 hours ago, AhFarangJa said:

...If they were given autonomy then one day they will run out of land and steadily move Northwards demanding more land, with the resulting violence following them. 

To be honest I cannot myself foresee a solution to the problem...

 

Songkhla, Pattani, Yala, and Narathiwat are buffer zones.  If the Thai Buddhist or Thai government cuts that loose, then the radicalized religious violence creeps northward.  Then Satun, Trang, and Phatthalung are next.  Then Phuket, Krabi, and Nakhon Si Thammarat. So, imho, keeping this contained to the four provinces bordering Malaysia is probably the best strategy.  If the radicalized Wahabbi, Salafi, Takfiri Islamic communities wish to live in a war zone, so be it.  If the more secular Islamic communities don't wish to live in a war zone, they should do something to stop it.  The secularization of Islam is not an impossibility.  It's been done before by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk in Turkey which lead to are relatively stable, secular, Westernize country.  

Unfortunately, we infidels, kafirs, and pagans <their terms for us, not our terms for ourselves) really don't have a whole lot of impact or say in the matter.  So if the Thai government via the Thai military keeps those four provinces relatively cordoned off from the rest of the country and allow them to act as buffer zones, so much the better for the rest of Thailand.  Unfortunate, but that's just dealing with reality.  

Edited May 13, 2017 by connda

[samuijimmy]

Inappropriate remark removed.

[Rhys]

Just sad, they are hurting the own people, these are not the targets.... 

[Dexlowe]

18 minutes ago, Rhys said:

Just sad, they are hurting the own people, these are not the targets.... 

Yes, very sad, they should only be targeting those who are not their own people.

 

[geriatrickid]

To get the vehicle for the plot, the gang allegedly lured Nuson Kajornkam, a tent-service provider from Yala province, to Pattani and killed him on Tuesday morning, 

 

Wow. You really have to be a cold blooded psychopath  to kill someone like this. Putting all the politics aside, this act in and of itself is just so wrong. Where is the justice for this poor  man, his widow and his kids.

[metisdead]

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