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Even their dogs met tragedy
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/local/35429/six-dead-in-insurgent-attack
Six dead in insurgent attack
* Published: 2/04/2010 at 12:00 AM
* Newspaper section: NewsSix game hunters have been shot and killed by suspected insurgents in Narathiwat’s Bacho district.
Police found a bullet-riddled pickup truck on the the side of a road at the foot of Budo Hill yesterday.
Six men – Damrong Thongjinda, Sukon Kaewsam-ang, Thanoo Sengseedaeng, Nitipong Sengseedaeng, Samai Sengseedaeng and Kampol Praikaew – were found dead in and around the truck.
Police said two of the men were found lying on the ground next to the pickup and the other four were on the back of the truck.
Police also found two dead dogs and the carcass of a wild boar, thought to weigh more than 100 kilogrammes, on the back of the truck.
Police said the men were killed when attackers sprayed their truck with bullets. About 60 spent shells from AK-47 and M16 rifles were collected.
A bomb went off as police from the Bacho police station were travelling to the scene. The explosion happened about one kilometre from the gun attack spot. Some officers suffered slight injuries.
Meanwhile, security forces found a cache of weapons at a suspected militants’ training ground in Pattani’s Yarang district.
Soldiers found weapons hidden in the bush. They included grenades and rifles, Pattani Task Force 21 chief Lt Col Boonsin Pardklang said.
Ironically the M16s were probably from various successful raids against the Thai army.
I am kinda surprised a few local countries (ahem Australia ahem) aren’t pressuring the Thais to solve this one (or at least do better). Money is starting to flow to these gyus from more sinister Wahabists. It don’t need to be this way.
Alot of the Southern insurgents have had traning in places like Yeman, Sudan & Central Asia, they also have strong contatcs with groups like JI in Indonesia & others in the Phils. I don’t think they are heavily funded but they do get rescources. Thai intelligence people know this stuff already, for the Thai army it’s a kind of waiting game, if shit happened in the south with greater frequency then the army would be more forceful. They don’t want a repeat of events when Herr Thanksin was PM.
Rob, what can the Aussie government do that would have any positive & visable effect in Thailand?
luckily the thai insurgency in the south hasn’t gotten too international, yet. as far as i know, the various groups in the south have largely distanced themselves from the likes of abu sayyaf and other SE Asian al qaeda wannabes. i wonder how the thai military is going to react to this – they have been criticized of being heavy handed in the past, which may have fueled more violence in turn.
@Jimbo wrote:
Rob, what can the Aussie government do that would have any positive & visable effect in Thailand?
Aussie and others. The main future problem for Australia is that we’re practically surrounded to the north by the Arc of Instability – Sri Lanka, Burma, Southern Thailand, Aceh, West Papua, Mindanao, Papua, Solomons, Vanuatu and Fiji. Some of those places have already been used as trans-shipment points for heroin etc into Australia, not to mention other crap. It’s probably one of Australia’s biggest foreign policy challenges in the coming decades.
Southern Thailand isn’t too bad, but the actions of the Military and politicians seem to break every rule in the book as far as dealing with insurgencies. Australia could at least bring some power to bear there (not to mention encouraging others to).
As beardanddragon says, things haven’t got out of control yet, but they could. Wahbist money is starting to come in. JI links aren’t strong but are growing. Pondoks are starting to spring up that have more in common with Maddrasas than high schools (funded from Pakistan and Saudi).
The crisis group had some pretty good recommendations for dealing with Southern Thailand at the end of last year. Australia could start by offering aid attached to the implementation of those recommendations.
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