Translate by the News Desk Nur Abdulrrahman was recently elected the new leader of the Pattani United Liberation Organisation (Pulo), succeeding Kebir Abdurrahman Tenvira who died in exile in Syria’s Damascus last year.
By Abdullah Whangni The latest newspaper headline screams “Two Or Sor dead and three injured in a bomb blast”. But the unfortunate deaths of this group of people, a uniformed militia force of the Interior Ministry, who have been battling the militants in the far South shoulder-to-shoulder with army troops and policemen are not often mentioned despite the fact that they, like the other security fo ...
By the News Desk Today, the 4th of January, marks the sixth anniversary of the daring raid of an army armoury at the Prince Narathiwat garrison in Joh-I-Rong district of Narathiwat by suspected militants who managed to take away 413 M16 assault rifles.
Story by Somsak Hunngam Despite the seemingly endless violence which has gripped the three southernmost provinces for almost six years, the region may have its first shopping mall-cum-education complex within a year “if everything goes as planned”.
By the News Desk Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva was recently asked by the widow of missing Muslim human rights lawyer Somchai Nillapaijit to resolve the case of a key witness who has gone missing without any traces for almost two weeks.
By Sumeth Parnpeth, Abdullah Whangni The Thai army’s 350 million baht surveillance airship has arrived in Pattani province and is expected to start operational in the middle of next month.
By Pratya Toh-e-tae It should be noted that the idea of the Nakhon Pattani or Pattani City model of local administrative body for the violence-prone deep South proposed recently by General Chavalit Yongchaiyudh, chairman of the opposition Puea Thai party, has not only sparked off a series of public discussions about the matter but it has also resulted to the drafting of a bill for a new model of ...
By the News Desk Altogether more than 3,800 people were killed in the deep South during the past six years since the militants first staged their campaign of terror on April 4, 2004 by raiding an army armoury in Joh Irong district of Narathiwat.
By the News Desk The southern unrest problem has re-emerged as a topical issue in the national agenda when Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajva and his Malaysian counterpart, Mr Najib Razak, made a historic visit to the deep South early December in what was seen as a joint effort by the two countries to address the problem.
By General Harn Leenanont General Harn Leenanont, former commander of the South-based Fourth Army Region, contributed this article for the Isra news agency. The followings are excerpts of the article.