Last month saw 51 people killed and 157 others injured in violence in the southern border provinces of Thailand, the Deep South Watch announced Saturday. The news came as a Narathiwat village headman and a Pattani truck driver were killed in separate incidents yesterday. Read more: The Nation
A truck driver was killed in a drive-by shooting on the Chonprathan road at Ban Pho in tambon Magrood of Pattani’s Khok Pho district on Saturday morning, police said. The victim, identified as Pisuth Boonnap, 61. Read more: Bangkok Post
NARATHIWAT, Oct 1 – A village head was gunned down on Saturday while he was inspecting the construction of a mosque in troubled Narathiwat’s Chanae district, according to local police. Waepayunan Sidae, 50, village head of Ban I So was shot three times in his head, arm and torso by a gunman armed with a […]
Insurgents in the long-running internal armed conflict in southern Thailand must immediately stop their campaign of targeting civilians, Amnesty International urged today in a new report. “They took nothing but his life”: Unlawful killings in Thailand’s southern insurgency provides details of how insurgents have deliberately attacked “soft targets”: farmers, teachers, students, religious leaders, and civil […]
YALA, Sept 29 – One soldier of a teacher protection unit was wounded in an ambush bombing in the southern province of Yala on Thursday morning. The bomb was triggered by suspected insurgents as eight soldiers were on morning patrol in the provincial seat. Read more: MCOT
BANGKOK, 28 September 2011 (NNT) – The recent car bombs in Su-ngai Kolok district of Narathiwat province have prompted ten countries to warn their citizens against traveling to Southern Thailand, according to the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT). In the wake of three deadly car explosions in Su-ngai Kolok district on 16 September, which left […]
NARATHIWAT, Sept 28 – Four soldiers assigned to a teacher-protection mission were killed, while two others including a 7-year-old student were seriously wounded as presumed insurgents shot at the group outside a school in this southern border province Wednesday. The latest attack took place one day after army chief Gen Prayuth Chan-ocha visited the province […]
BANGKOK, Sept 27 – Thai Army chief Gen Prayuth Chan-ocha is is Thailand’s troubled South today on an inspection trip of the insurgency-impacted border region. Meeting the media before departing, he said that security in the area is less than it might be, but that it will be stepped up to contain the movements and […]
