The Anti-Money Laundering Office (AMLO) has recently submitted to the Attorney-General’s Office a list of the first batch of about 100 people facing arrest warrants in the deep South who are to be declared by the civil court as people associated with terrorism.

Thai people should have trust and more patience towards the peace talk processs between the government and the Barisan Revolusi Nasional (BRN) separatist group, according to Natmuddin Uma, an advisor on southern unrest problem of Deputy Prime Minister Chalerm Yubamrung.

Deputy Prime Minister in charge of security affairs Chalerm Yubamrung was told by Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra to immediately visit the restive deep South following Friday April 5’s roadside bomb attack in Yala’s Bannang Sata district which killed the deputy governor and his assistant.

The motorcycle bomb blast in Pattani’s downtown on March 21 which killed a nine-year old Muslim girl and wounded 14 other people could be perpetrated by militants who agreed or disagreed with the peace talk process between the government and the Barisan Revolusi Nasional (BRN), said Lt-Gen Paradorn Pattanathabut, secretary-general of the National Security Council.

Thai government’s delegation to the first formal peace talk scheduled in Kuala Lumpur on March 28 is expected to raise one issue for discussion with the BRN – that is the de-escalation of violence in the deep South.