Chalerm: Media helping to stir up southern unrest

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Chalerm: Media helping to stir up southern unrest

Published: 9 Aug 2012 at 16.07
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The media is partly to blame for the problems in the far South because they give the violence too much news coverage, and there are also evil politicians behind the insurgency, Deputy Prime Minister Chalerm Yubamrung said during the House meeting on Thursday.

Democrat MP for Narathiwat Surachet Wae-asae told the House that southern unrest had intensified since the first Thaksin Shinawatra administration. The government had not tackled the problem properly and there were human rights abuses in the region.

"Government officials don't give importance to the southern issue and they refuse to visit the area to assess the situation and raise the morale of the officers working there.

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johninbkk
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Discussion 42 : 15 Aug 2012 at 03.0842
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gordlimey 41 - "according to your facts, i must come to the conclusion that the violence in the south was decreasing when the DEMS were voted out of office. Correct?"
The reported incidents of violence did indeed decrease from the peak of the military coup government era, but the incidents during the AV era were no lower/better than during the TS era level.
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Discussion 41 : 11 Aug 2012 at 10.2941
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D29 johninbkk;
So john, according to your facts, i must come to the conclusion that the violence in the south was decreasing when the DEMS were voted out of office. Correct?
For the second part of your post i would like to quote Winston Churchill to you;

"We have always found the Irish (Malay) a bit odd. They refuse to be English (Thai)". I believe that when those sat around the table understand this then in will help in finding the solution.
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Discussion 40 : 11 Aug 2012 at 02.4040
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android - "it is naive to believe that UN would even care to intervene the deep south issue in thailand. There are many other countries that have a much higher priority for UN to deal with."

I actually kind of agree with you on that. But since the BP ran an article that the UN might be considering intervening, there might be something to it. Kinda like the article on Thaksin going to the U.S. I guess if one is true, the other must be also, right?
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Discussion 39 : 11 Aug 2012 at 01.2139
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android - please answer. Do you believe or not that it is Yingluck's responsibility to go to the South and try to raise moral or just let the people there know she cares about them? You keep avoiding that subject and laying the blame on Dems when it is PTP that runs the country supposedly.
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Discussion 38 : 10 Aug 2012 at 22.2738
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Discussion 37 brilliant : it is naive to believe that UN would even care to intervene the deep south issue in thailand. There are many other countries that have a much higher priority for UN to deal with.
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Discussion 37 : 10 Aug 2012 at 21.0237
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so, android, you believe that Yingluck doesn't need to make any effort to at least visit the South?
You don't think it might help the moral of the people that live through the daily bombings and killings.
If the U.N. takes over, she won't ha e to worry about it, but what an embarrassment for Thailand.
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Discussion 36 : 10 Aug 2012 at 11.2336
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Discussion 34 brilliant : one of the duties of parliamentary MPs are to voice out grievances and problems on behalf of the citizens residing in their election zone. Suthep and his dem party MPs are supposed to reflect the souther district situation in the parliament for discussion, but they didn't!
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Discussion 35 : 10 Aug 2012 at 07.4935
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Chalerm: Media helping to stir up southern unrest

Carefull Chalerm,this is the same media that publishes every bit of nonsense about you fugitive boss, that does more harm to the country than southern unrest.....

hold to believe johninbkk got his facts so confused ,keep it up ,you will join that small international law firm (http://legaltimes.typepad.com/blt/2012/07/firm-quits-us-lobbying-for-former-thai-prime-minister.html) and be in the also rans
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Discussion 34 : 10 Aug 2012 at 04.0334
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jinbkk - "My opinion: demanding Yingluck go to the south is like demanding Obama to travel to Iraq. This is just mudslinging and lacks any suggestions to help resolve the issues."

Really? I could easily come up with the number of times Obama has been to Iraq. Many more times than Yingluck has been to the South of HER own country. She could get in a military plane and be in and out in one day even.
Fact: As a leader of her country, Yingluck needs to go put her boots on the ground in the South. It might not solve the problem, but at least the innocent Southerns that face this everyday would now she at least cared a little bit. and it's better than some paper airplanes. Yingluck shows ZERO concern for her fellow Thais.
Good old non-biased John showing his bias again.
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Discussion 33 : 10 Aug 2012 at 03.1133
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d29: Now you're wenging again. All stats are crystal clear, violence started during the fugitive's term, slowed down during K.Abhisit and now when the fugitive is back in power it peaks again. The Puea Thaksin regime is simply incompetent.
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