Malaysia’s peace talks facilitator’s recent public appearance and his role in meeting the Thai media to talk about the southern peace talks have been viewed with skepticism from security experts and officials of Thailand.

"I am saddened with the incidents during this period. While the cremation of Acting Sub-Lt Benjaporn Kuathung, a police officer’s wife, is yet to take place, the same incident happened to Ms Sayamon sae Lim, an employee of Bangkok Bank, and while the bathing rite is yet to take place, four more people get killed in Mae Lan," so said Senator Anusart Suwanmongkol of Pattani.

Security forces in the troubled Deep South have been alerted to keep close watch on the movements of para rubber logs for fear that the separatists may hide improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in hollowed-out logs or may wrap the IEDs with tree barks.

Hassan Taib, the chief peace talk negotiator of the Barisan Nasional Revolusi (BRN) has probably been held under “house arrest” somewhere and stripped of his role in the peace process.

Members of the Explosive Ordnance Disposal in the Deep South have shifted to destroying suspected improvised explosive devices (IED) instead of trying to defuse them for safety reasons.