Six deaths in far South rattle officials

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Six deaths in far South rattle officials

Published: 11 Dec 2012 at 16.51
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Police and army chiefs will sit down and discuss better ways to cope with the insurgency in the far South following the murder of six more people, including two teachers and an 11-month-old girl, on Tuesday.

National police chief Pol Gen Adul Saengsingkaew said he would meet with army chief Gen Prayuth Chan-ocha on Thursday and discuss way to combat the resurging violence.

The slaying of six people in a five-hour time span in one day came only two days before Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra's planned trip to the region.

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john_l
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Discussion 13 : 12 Dec 2012 at 13.1913
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The South is a Muslim battle ground where Malaysia-backed Shia are waging a war on the local Sunni Muslim's. It's time Thailand really understood what is happening down there and where the money comes from.
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Discussion 12 : 12 Dec 2012 at 10.1412
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brilliant D11

The government and anyone else who follows the situation down south has known this for years.

Read "Tearing Apart the Land" by Professor Duncan McCargo, or "Rethinking Thailand's Southern Violence" published by the National University of Singapore.
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Discussion 11 : 12 Dec 2012 at 07.5911
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dom - "What makes you think the insurgents are crossing the border? A few of the leaders maybe, but the majority of the insurgents live on the Thai side of the border, they are local people."

If you know this for sure, the government would love for you to disclose this and how you know it with such certainty.
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Discussion 10 : 12 Dec 2012 at 02.3610
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Gen Adul said he would meet Gen Prayuth on "Thursday" and discuss way to combat the resurgent violence.

Why not tomorrow - interfere with golf. Based on averages that means another 7 dead before they meet.

How disgusting that only now will they talk. What does it take to get fired in the Thai Army. After two years of no progress Prayuth would have be relieved in most Armies.

Do you remember him saying there were 9754 insurgents or some such number as if he really knew what was happening. That is equivalent to an Army division. IMO using that figure showed they are clueless.
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Discussion 9 : 12 Dec 2012 at 02.249
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"Police and army chiefs will sit down and discuss better ways to cope with the insurgency in the far South"
Again and again and again, so on and so on. Thats all they do or at least tell us they do.

Quit talking and do something for the people of the south. All officals need to help not bicker.
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Discussion 8 : 12 Dec 2012 at 01.458
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The Deputy PM should be forced to resign from government as his statement -We do not have a terrorist problem shows how incompetent he really is. These acts of terror killing innocent people is totally unacceptable and the government and military generals need to focus on coming up with a combined effort to root out the masterminds behind these terrorist acts. If this is beyond their capabilities they need to resign, all of them and elect new leaders and generals who do have the capability. This has long been a very serious problem and it's time everyone faces the truth here and deal with it effectively.
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Discussion 7 : 11 Dec 2012 at 21.347
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drsmith D1

The International Crisis Group (ICG) agrees with you, do you agree with the ICG that the government should pull the army out and cancel the emergency decree which gives the army immunity from prosecution?
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Discussion 6 : 11 Dec 2012 at 21.286
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What makes you think the insurgents are crossing the border? A few of the leaders maybe, but the majority of the insurgents live on the Thai side of the border, they are local people.
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Discussion 5 : 11 Dec 2012 at 20.475
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Whether anyone likes to hear it or not, facts speak for themselves; the Thai government does not care one iota about the south. From the governments and the military’s perspective, the biggest problem from the south is not the killing, shooting, bombing and thousands of dead but the glaring light shined on the government’s and the military’s lack of concern, plans or solutions to a decade’s old killing spree. Truly unbelievable!
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Discussion 4 : 11 Dec 2012 at 20.454
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The question is, why doesn't the Thai Government take steps to root-out and destroy the southern insurgency? Why aren't these killers captured and prosecuted for their crimes? Being a nice-guy and pretending this terrorist activity will stop, is nothing more than wishful-thinking and won't work. Being nice to terrorists and promising them everything under the sun, will only make the problem worse.
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