A man has been stabbed to death and partially decapitated in Thailand’s insurgency-wracked deep south, police said on Monday. The body of the unidentified victim, believed to be in his early 20s, was found in a rubber plantation in Narathiwat province, near the border with Malaysia. The Sydney Morning Herald
Narathiwat – A Buddhist woman was gunned down apparently by Muslim insurgents in this southern border province Saturday. Ratana Kwanjai, 42, was shot and killed in her rubber plantation in Tambon Kaluwor of Muang district. She suffered multiple gunshot wounds. Police found eight M16 and AK-47 spent shells at the scene. The Nation
YALA (Thailand) – Suspected Muslim insurgents shot dead three people in Thailand’s restive south on Saturday in two separate incidents, police said, the latest violence in the troubled region bordering Malaysia. A soldier was gunned down in an ambush while riding a motorbike to a military base in Yala province. In neighbouring Pattani, a Buddhist […]
Pattani, Narathiwat and Yala provinces in the Thai south are the three provinces that have been dogged by decades of insurgencies launched by groups allegedly linked to foreign terrorist organizations. Although the number of insurgent attacks has gone down since 2006, insurgencies in the south have continued to draw the attention of Muslim-majority countries as […]
The Thai government and its top military commanders overseeing counterinsurgency operations in its restive southern Muslim provinces have ruled out the presence of al-Qaeda or jihadi tendencies, saying the rebellion is essentially local and has no affiliations with global terrorism. “For a terrorist group like al-Qaeda Thailand is a very small target. The rebellion in […]
Narathiwat – Five rangers were slightly injured when insurgents detonated a road-side bomb to ambush them in this southern border province Monday. The explosion occurred at 11:45 am on a main road in Dohaemae village in Tambon Rico of Sungai Padi district. Police said the five rangers were returning to their base when insurgents detonated […]
Internal Security Operation Command (ISOC) on Wednesday denied reports that Malay-Muslim separatist organisations unilaterally suspended organised attacks in three districts of Narathiwat province. The Patani Malay Liberation Movement had issued a statement over the weekend, claiming that the unilateral cease-fire – billed as a confidence-building measure – was implemented in Rangae, Yingor and Choh I-Rong […]
