Bangkok, Sep 21 (DPA) Separatists have killed 135 teachers in southern Thailand over the past eight years in their efforts to rid the region of ‘Siamese infidels’, a human rights group said Tuesday. Since January 2004, insurgents in Thailand’s southernmost provinces of Narathiwat, Pattani and Yala have deliberately targeted school teachers in their fight against […]
Four Buddhist villagers were slain by muslim insurgents who raided their village Saturday night. The attack against the Buddhists’ houses in Hutaeyuloh village in Tambon Bareh in Bacho distict happened at 8 pm. The insurgents attacked three houses and killed the residents before setting the houses on fire. The four were identified as Charoensilp Boonthong, […]
NARATHIWAT, Sept 16 – A father and his teenage son were gunned down in Narathiwat and a couple was shot and wounded in the adjacent province of Pattani overnight. Latae Tangyongaree, 56 a village official and his 17-year-old son Sorlae Tanyongaree were found dead near beside motorcycle. Near their bullet-ridden bodies were 21 spent cartridge […]
Three soldiers have been injured when an improvised bomb went off as the troops were leaving their outpost in Thailand’s southern province of Narathiwat. A 5-kilogram bomb planted under a small pile of sand exploded on Friday morning in front of the soldiers’ outpost in the Bacho district of Narathiwat town as an eight-man patrol […]
SONGKHLA, Sept 14 – A Singaporean man was arrested Tuesday at a Thai-Malaysian border checkpoint in Sadao district of Songkhla province with more than 4,000 ecstasy pills and other illicit drugs, worth Bt3.5 million (about US$113,800), according to a Thai customs official. When the authorities found the drugs and arrested the man carrying them, he […]
BANGKOK, Sept 13 — Representatives of Thailand’s teachers federations in the three southern border provinces of Yala, Pattani and Narathiwat will meet Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva at Government House in the capital on Monday to discuss solutions for ending the ongoing violence and attacks on teachers. The meeting came after two Narathiwat teachers were shot […]
BANGKOK: A leading rights group on Saturday denounced suspected insurgent attacks that have disrupted education in Thailand’s violent south and warned against unlawful revenge by security forces. Human Rights Watch (HRW) urged the government to ensure the safety of schools after two teachers were killed in Narathiwat province on Tuesday, which sparked the suspension of […]
A Thai diplomat in a northern Malaysian state has said his countrymen working in Malaysia are funding insurgents in Thailand’s restive southern provinces, according to a report Friday. Thai consul general Surapon Petch-Vra, who is based in Kelantan state, told the New Straits Times newspaper Thai workers have been sending back money to groups involved […]
