3 rangers, maid slain in Yala

Published: 15 Sep 2012 at 11.35
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Three paramilitary rangers and a housekeeper were killed in an ambush in Yala’s Muang district early Saturday morning, police said.

Photo by Post Today The killings took place a few hours after a clash in Pattani province in which one suspected militant was killed and another arrested.Pol Col Narin Busaman, the chief of Muang Yala police station, said the attack in Yala took place on a local road in front of Tharn Nampueng school in tambon Sateng Nok of Muang district about 6am.He said he and a team of police rushed to the scene and found firefighters trying to put out a blaze in a pickup truck.Lying on the road near the burning vehicle were the dead bodies of three rangers of No 41 paramilitary ranger unit -- Somyos Waewpetch, Kampol Mangwong and Panurat Boonthanuwong -- and Mrs Porn Kaewmak, a housekeeper at the ranger camp.Witnesses told police that the rangers and housekeeper were travelling in the pickup to a fresh market in Muang district when gunmen hiding in a roadside forest sprayed bullets at them with M16 assault rifles and 9mm handguns.The four victims were shot several times in the heads and bodies and died inside the truck on the spot.The attackers stole the M16 assault rifles of the rangers, then set fire to the pickup truck and fled.Police believed that the attackers were members of the southern separatist movement in...

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brilliant
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Discussion 20 : 16 Sep 2012 at 23.3320
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dom - "I agree with you that it is foolish to attempt to write history the day after it happens, pity you spoilt your point my immediately falling into the same trap. To claim at this stage that PT has failed is as stupid as to claim they have succeeded."

No trap at all. There's a LONG history of failure by TRT/PTP led governments in the South, several years, and NO history whatsoever of success.
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Discussion 19 : 16 Sep 2012 at 20.5119
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brilliant D11

I agree with you that it is foolish to attempt to write history the day after it happens, pity you spoilt your point my immediately falling into the same trap. To claim at this stage that PT has failed is as stupid as to claim they have succeeded.

Any negotiations to end an insurgency will be long and painstaking and will involve many people of different levels of relevance and many trips down blind alleys, the secret is single minded perseverance and political stamina.
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Discussion 18 : 16 Sep 2012 at 03.3118
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what would happen if a member of the thaksin family would be hurt in a ambush in the south ??? i think sombody would react specialy from some red friends ...but it will never hapen because those people r al afraid to go in the south ..hehehehe
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Discussion 17 : 16 Sep 2012 at 02.3517
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Where are the drones? I'm not talking about the PM one, controlled from Dubai, but real ones packed with all kind of sensors and missiles!
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Discussion 16 : 16 Sep 2012 at 01.1916
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It makes me feel physically sick when I read the everyday news about this rampant killing in the Southern region.
It makes me angry that no-one is making serious effort to stop this.
Not the Government. Not the Army. Not the Police.
Sure they talk and talk and have meetings to make us think they are making progress.
But it is all a big public relations exercise because they are out of their depth.
They don't have the balls to own up and admit they do not know what to do.
The Authorities report that they know who is behind these killings.
OK, so then, round them up, shoot them up, lock them up and throw away the key.
Do something.
Talk is cheap.
People's lives are not.
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Discussion 15 : 16 Sep 2012 at 00.2915
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The Puea Thaksin regime has lost all control and must take responsibility for their incompetence.
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Discussion 14 : 15 Sep 2012 at 22.2614
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its far too easy for these fatcats generals in Bangkok coming out with ridiculous orders, ideas and statements when their own lives are not on the line..pity those poor foot soldiers...shot like fish in a barrel...don't they ever learn?..i still see soldiers going on patrol here in the south on motorbikes..its russian roulette for these guys whether they meet their deliverers on the road...don't they ever learn?..ah well i've heard it said lifes cheap here in thailand..but what price a general's life?
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Discussion 13 : 15 Sep 2012 at 22.1213
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There is a big difference in being a Muslim and being Islamist. I can live side by side with a Muslim but I would never turn my back on an Islamist. If there was a problem with my Muslim neighbor he would confront me. If there was a problem with my Islamist neighbor he would strap a bomb to himself sneak up behind me and detonate killing us both, in the name of a deity that does not exist fully expecting he will be rewarded as a marter. Some people are truly sick. Give the border provinces back to Malaysia where they belong, but not until a giant security (read; prison) wall is put up at the new border.
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Discussion 12 : 15 Sep 2012 at 21.2312
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why are the soldiers sitting ducks
why they have no spys in the terrorist camps
i think its not so difficult
and if you give a reward of 50 miljon bath
you get result in one day
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Discussion 11 : 15 Sep 2012 at 21.0011
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In the last few days, PTP was virtually declaring victory in the South. Red shirt apologists came out in mass for the first time on these threads crowing about how great PTP was doing suddenly.
What happened?
This continues to be a sad chapter in Thai history and utter failure on PTP's part.
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