An independent panel tasked with investigating into the death of a suspect detained on security-related charges held its first meeting on December 9 – one day after it was set up.

Violence appears to have escalated ahead of the 11th anniversary of the Krue Se incident on April 28 but most of the victims are innocent civilians.

Evacuation of the Rohingya people out of Bangladesh’s port city of Cox’s Bazaar to several Muslim countries as well as Thailand to seek a new pasture started more than two decades ago, according to information obtained by the Thai intelligence service.

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.

The forward directorate of the Region 4’s Internal Security Operations Command has launched a pacification programme on December 1 aiming to restore peace in five districts with the cooperation of the government’s sector, the people’s sector and the anti-government’s sector.