Last month saw 51 people killed and 157 others injured in violence in the southern border provinces of Thailand, the Deep South Watch announced Saturday. The news came as a Narathiwat village headman and a Pattani truck driver were killed in separate incidents yesterday. Read more: The Nation
NARATHIWAT, Oct 1 – A village head was gunned down on Saturday while he was inspecting the construction of a mosque in troubled Narathiwat’s Chanae district, according to local police. Waepayunan Sidae, 50, village head of Ban I So was shot three times in his head, arm and torso by a gunman armed with a […]
Insurgents in the long-running internal armed conflict in southern Thailand must immediately stop their campaign of targeting civilians, Amnesty International urged today in a new report. “They took nothing but his life”: Unlawful killings in Thailand’s southern insurgency provides details of how insurgents have deliberately attacked “soft targets”: farmers, teachers, students, religious leaders, and civil […]
The Thai government of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has back-tracked on a campaign pledge to establish a special administration zone in its troubled southern provinces. Political analysts say a simmering insurgency in the majority-Muslim Malay region can only be resolved by allowing some form of self-rule. But, the government has little incentive to challenge the […]
BANGKOK, 28 September 2011 (NNT) – The recent car bombs in Su-ngai Kolok district of Narathiwat province have prompted ten countries to warn their citizens against traveling to Southern Thailand, according to the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT). In the wake of three deadly car explosions in Su-ngai Kolok district on 16 September, which left […]
NARATHIWAT, Sept 28 – Four soldiers assigned to a teacher-protection mission were killed, while two others including a 7-year-old student were seriously wounded as presumed insurgents shot at the group outside a school in this southern border province Wednesday. The latest attack took place one day after army chief Gen Prayuth Chan-ocha visited the province […]
NARATHIWAT, Sept 26 – Fire badly damaged two security installations by suspected arsons in Narathiwat’s Bacho district but no casualties were reported, according to local police. Fires broke out at a police special operations unit and an army post at about 9pm Sunday, according to Pol Col Pakdee Prechachon, superintendent of Bacho police station. Read […]
The death toll in the series of three bomb attacks that rocked Thailand’s Narathiwat Sungai Kolok district on September 16 has risen to six after a journalist succumbed to his injuries yesterday. Meanwhile, soldiers yesterday interrogated two suspects in a separate bomb attack on Friday at a school in the same province. Read more: The […]
