Panel approves aid for South victims

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Panel approves aid for South victims

Payments to range from B10,000 to B7.5m

Published: 13/02/2012 at 05:10 AM
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A government-appointed committee set up to compensate and rehabilitate people affected by violence in the strife-torn deep South has resolved to pay up to 7.5 million baht in compensation each to families of those killed during eight years of violence.

The committee, chaired by Justice Minister Pol Gen Pracha Promnok, came up with the compensation package for families of four groups of violence victims in Narathiwat, Pattani, Yala and Songkhla's four districts _ Chana, Na Thawi, Saba Yoi and Thepha _ after meeting yesterday at a hotel in Songkhla's Hat Yai district.

People affected by violence in the deep South had demanded compensation, after the government approved restitution for victims of political violence elsewhere in the country.

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johninbkk
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Discussion 16 : 16/02/2012 at 12:08 PM16
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spiceman D15 - You didn't answer any of my questions.
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Discussion 15 : 14/02/2012 at 04:26 AM15
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Khun JohninBKK #14, have you heard of the independent Military-Police-Civilian Intel Agency? The independent Intel agency was established as a initiative by HM, as a response to early insurgency problem many decades ago. That explains why the Deep South had been relatively quiet and peaceful, until the arrival of PM Thaksin's new policy, which called for imposing a concentration of Buddhist-Thai culture on the Muslim natives, as well as, abolishing the independent Intel agency. As a result, thousands and thousands of people in the region, continue to pay for Thaksin's severely misguided policy with their lives until today.
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Discussion 14 : 14/02/2012 at 12:37 AM14
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spiceman D11 - Abolishing the "highly effective independent Intel Agency"?
Which 'highly effective agency'? Who set it up? Who ran the agency? Who ran it's replacement after the coup? I know the answers to that, and you should too.

"I wonder who ordered to have the uprising crushed, resulting in Tak-Bai Massacre?"
You should look that up - you'll be surprised who actually ordered it. hint: it's not who the PAD said it was
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Discussion 13 : 13/02/2012 at 05:28 PM13
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Just feel the need to say that the southern conflict did not start from the Tak Bai incidents. There was already high tension in the air after insurgents burn more than 30 schools on Jan 4 '04 and stage the famous weapon thefts in country history. Four senior non-com officers were murdered and 320 assault rifles were stolen. Under such circumstances, there was a sense of anger with the men in green. I do not condon the senseless killing of innocents though.
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Discussion 12 : 13/02/2012 at 02:54 PM12
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Diss 2 Johnb
I have bashed Thaksin already today thanks .
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Discussion 11 : 13/02/2012 at 01:36 PM11
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Khun Abbub #7, and who do you think radically changed the long-held Deep Southern policy, by abolishing the highly effective independent Intel Agency? And when it blew up in the face, I wonder who ordered to have the uprising crushed, resulting in Tak-Bai Massacre?
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Discussion 10 : 13/02/2012 at 01:14 PM10
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What about the more than 2,500 Thais killed during the fugitive's war on drugs?
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Discussion 9 : 13/02/2012 at 12:43 PM9
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A step in the right direction - admitting that the authorities were at fault. But it's only one step in the right direction . . . abbub D5 is right.
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Discussion 8 : 13/02/2012 at 12:11 PM8
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The payout of victims of violence wouldnt even be on the table except that PT is trying to justify why it is alright to pay out UDD redshirts who sat in Ratchprasong because Thaksin paid them to .A labor girl from Lao got sliced in half by some rich kid who ran away and how much did she get ? Not much .7.5 million is a ridiculous sum of money to pay people who incited violence and burned the city .Innocent people in the south should be compensated for the governments incompetence but shouldnt be maybe millionaires in the process because the government want to justify paying off the UDD .
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Discussion 7 : 13/02/2012 at 11:42 AM7
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TUAN D6: Taksin's regome as you call did not carry out the atrocities against unarmed people in the south. The military did. They could care less because they are never held to account anyway.
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