Kein Ende der Gewalt im Süden Thailands

Update: Two dead in South violence


Narathiwat (Agencies) - A Buddhist woman was killed and 12 others wounded, including six soldiers, in a roadside bomb attack Saturday, while a Muslim man was shot dead in continuing violence in the South, police said.

The 7kg bomb went off in front of a grocery shop in Pattani, one of three Muslim-majority provinces bordering Malaysia, they said.

It was detonated by remote control.

The attack was aimed at soldiers who were providing security for Buddhist monks on their morning alms round, police said. Three monks were also wounded.

In nearby Narathiwat, a Muslim barber was gunned down at his shop by three suspected militants, police said.

Two rubber tappers killed in Yala


Suspected separatists in the south have taken two more innocent lives. In the latest attack, two rubber tappers were shot and killed while on their way to work in Yala's Yaha district.

As the violence continues in the restive region, security has been tightened for Buddhist monks. Locals were also urged to co-operate with authorities in quelling the unrest by reporting any suspicious activities or any strangers trying to blend into the local community to police.

The Internal Security Operations Command (ISOC) has warned locals that separatists usually strike in secluded areas. The ISOC branded the attackers of innocent civilians "cowards" for targeting defenseless victims.

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Hab die Bangkok Post auch grad gelesen

Oh ....hat es wiedermal ein Vorfall in die Presse geschaft ? Eigentlich sind die Übergriffe schon zu alltäglich, als dass sich die Presse noch dafür interessiert.

[Daniel Sun]

Oh ....hat es wiedermal ein Vorfall in die Presse geschaft ? Eigentlich sind die Übergriffe schon zu alltäglich, als dass sich die Presse noch dafür interessiert.

Was die ganze Sache noch schrecklicher macht, als es ohnehin schon ist...
...ob es jemals ein Ende solcher Gewalttaten geben wird?

Gruß Daniel

Oh ....hat es wiedermal ein Vorfall in die Presse geschaft ? Eigentlich sind die Übergriffe schon zu alltäglich, als dass sich die Presse noch dafür interessiert.

Vielleicht liegt es daran, dass Soldaten und Mönche unter den Verletzten sind!??????

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Eight die in fresh South violence

Pattani (dpa)
Insurgent attacks on state schools and Thai-Buddhist communities have claimed more civilians lives in the past two days in the deep South, provincial officials said Tuesday.

The fresh wave of violence coincided with the launch Tuesday of a 104-page report by the New York-based Human Rights Watch which roundly blasts the southern Muslim separatists for targetting civilians in its political struggle.

Two public school teachers were gunned down on Monday in Pattani, 720 kilometres south of Bangkok, and six other Thai-Buddhists slain Monday and early Tuesday.

"The insurgents have shifted their tactics from beheading villagers to targetting public school teachers," said Pattani Governor Panu Uthairat. Altogether 69 teachers have been killed in Thailand's southern conflict over the past three years and eight months.

Female teacher Kesine Timthep, 42, was shot dead Monday in front of her pupils by two gunmen as she was about enter the Sasanasuksa School in Sai Buri, Pattani. A male teacher was also gunned down Monday in Yalang, also in Pattani province.

Arsonists set fire to at least five state schools in the province Monday night, forcing ten schools to shut their doors to pupils on Tuesday.

Prapaijit Noonlaksert, 44, a female rubber tapper, was killed in an ambush early Tuesday as she entered a plantation with four other Thai-Buddhists workers, police said.

"The recent wave of attacks may be in revenge for all the suspects authorities have arrested in recent weeks," said Panu. Thai authorities have rounded up hundreds of suspected insurgents in the past three months, keeping many of them in detention under powers allowed by an emergency decree enacted in the region.

Some 2,500 people have fallen victim to an escalating separatist movement in Thailand's three southernmost provinces of Narathiwat, Pattani and Yala, since January, 2004, when the conflict took a militant turn for the worse.

The New York-based Human Rights Watch on Tuesday launched a 104-page report on the conflict that sharply criticized the separatists for their increasingly brutal attacks on civilians.

"After decades of low-intensity insurgency, Thailand's southern region is becoming the scene of a brutal armed conflict," said Brad Adams, Asia director at Human Rights Watch. "Separatist militants are intentionally targeting both Buddhist and Muslim civilians in shootings, bombings and machete attacks."

The report identifies the Pejuang Kemerdekaan Patani, or Patani Freedom Fighters, in the loose network of National Revolution Front-Coordinate as the backbone of the new generation of Muslim separatist militants.

Of the 2,463 people killed in attacks during the past 40 months, some 89 per cent or 2,196 victims were civilians, it said. At least 29 of the victims had been beheaded.

"Violence against civilians is being used by separatist militants to scare Buddhist Thais away from these provinces, keep ethnic Malay Muslims under control, and discredit the Thai authorities," said Adams. "But it is illegal and morally indefensible to deliberately target civilians in any circumstances."

Die Gewalt ist fast täglich in der Presse:

Insurgents kill railway officer in South

(BangkokPost.com) - Insurgents killed a railway officer in Narathiwat province on Friday afternoon.

The officer was shot while he was controlling signal at a station in Rueso District.

They also hid a 10-kilogramme bomb at a sentry box nearby in an attempt to harm security officials who were expected to inspect the scene. The bomb failed to detonate.

Die ausländische Presse berichtet eben kaum noch. Das ist leider nicht so gut.

In der deutschen Presse habe ich noch nie etwas darüber gelesen, das ist traurig aber war. Aber Thailand findet in der deutschen Presse ohnehin kaum statt!