Six violence-plagued districts in the restive South are to be subject to a government trial aimed at combating the unrest, Deputy Prime Minister Chavalit Yongchaiyudh said yesterday.
Gen Chavalit, who is in charge of national security, did not identify the six areas, saying only that the trial will start on Oct 11 and then expand to the three southernmost provinces of Narathiwat, Pattani and Yala one month later.
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| ANOTHER FALLEN SON: Soldiers stand next to the body of a man, shot dead yesterday by suspected militants in Yala. |
The trial will focus on encouraging residents to play a bigger part in the bid to end violence in their hometowns, as well as empowering local people through job opportunities.
It will also seek to engender a sense of shared national and local pride in all the races, religions and cultures present in Thailand, according to the deputy prime minister. He has drawn up a paper to end the southern violence.
But the strategy must be implemented under the principle of the constitution, he added.
Violence continued in the region yesterday when a 28-year-old man was shot dead in Yala's Raman district while riding his motorcycle on a road linking Ban Wang Phaya and Ban Tohpake.
Anan Srisuwan was the third son of the Srisuwan family to be gunned down, presumably by militant insurgents.
He was shot twice in the chest and once in his head, Raman police said.
Mr Anan was a worker at a para rubber lumber factory in Pattani's Yarang district. He was shot while on his way to work at the factory.
Police believed the attackers were of the same group that had earlier shot dead two of Mr Anan's elder brothers, Toem and Ek Srisuwan.
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