Two soldiers guarding school teachers were injured yesterday morning when a roadside bomb exploded. The incident occurred as the leader of one of the world's largest Muslim organisations visited on a peace mission.
Published on July 27, 2007
The Nation (Thailand)
Published on July 27, 2007
The Nation (Thailand)
Sgt-Major Chanat Phoo-thongtip and Private Kittikhun Chaiyaset were wounded when a bomb detonated on a back road in Khok Pho district. The soldiers were part of a security unit that included four police officers, all of whom escaped injury.
The incident came as Prof Din Syamsuddin, chairman of Muhammadiyah, Indonesia's second-largest Muslim organisation, was making his second visit to the region to encourage more people-to-people ex-changes between Muslims and non-Muslims of both countries.
Syamsuddin met with the chief of the Southern Border Provinces Administrative Centre, Pranai Suwannarat, the governors of Pattani, Yala and Narathiwat and Islamic religious leaders from five southern border provinces.
Syamruddin encouraged local communities to work for peace.
In a related development, Army spokesman Colonel Acra Thiproch said 154 people were being held under the emergency law that permits detention without trial. Authorities believe the individuals to be insurgent sympathisers and some militants.
They were detained in an ongoing sweep through pockets known to harbour insurgents.
He dismissed suggestions they were being mistreated and added that members were permitted to visit regularly.
Meanwhile, Her Majesty the Queen ordered the Royal Household Bureau to send rice and dried food to some 350 monks who arrived in the region yesterday for this year's Buddhist Lent. General Napol Boontab, director of royally sponsored projects, said 350 monks travelled to stay at temples in Yala, Pattani, Narathiwat and Songkhla to support Buddhists there.
The insurgency has claimed more than 2,400 lives since January 2004 and forced monks and laymen to relocate.
Meanwhile, in Nakhon Ratchasima, Ninth Region police commissioner Lt-General Chumpon Perngsiri said military weapons left over from decades of civil war in Cambodia continued to enter southern Thailand.
Prices for automatic weapons are about Bt4,000. The weapons are smuggled along the border mostly by pickup. Weapons are concealed, sometimes in coffins, he said.
The incident came as Prof Din Syamsuddin, chairman of Muhammadiyah, Indonesia's second-largest Muslim organisation, was making his second visit to the region to encourage more people-to-people ex-changes between Muslims and non-Muslims of both countries.
Syamsuddin met with the chief of the Southern Border Provinces Administrative Centre, Pranai Suwannarat, the governors of Pattani, Yala and Narathiwat and Islamic religious leaders from five southern border provinces.
Syamruddin encouraged local communities to work for peace.
In a related development, Army spokesman Colonel Acra Thiproch said 154 people were being held under the emergency law that permits detention without trial. Authorities believe the individuals to be insurgent sympathisers and some militants.
They were detained in an ongoing sweep through pockets known to harbour insurgents.
He dismissed suggestions they were being mistreated and added that members were permitted to visit regularly.
Meanwhile, Her Majesty the Queen ordered the Royal Household Bureau to send rice and dried food to some 350 monks who arrived in the region yesterday for this year's Buddhist Lent. General Napol Boontab, director of royally sponsored projects, said 350 monks travelled to stay at temples in Yala, Pattani, Narathiwat and Songkhla to support Buddhists there.
The insurgency has claimed more than 2,400 lives since January 2004 and forced monks and laymen to relocate.
Meanwhile, in Nakhon Ratchasima, Ninth Region police commissioner Lt-General Chumpon Perngsiri said military weapons left over from decades of civil war in Cambodia continued to enter southern Thailand.
Prices for automatic weapons are about Bt4,000. The weapons are smuggled along the border mostly by pickup. Weapons are concealed, sometimes in coffins, he said.
10 comments:
Yeah in the bad part always Cambodia to be blamed but not for the good one,if I can build the string missile and sell to Thailand I would do too.
koun khmer pheaskluon.
Thank for gave me the place to stay,
while I was a refugee.
now you have headache with those muslim militants ahhh......it won't end, it will go on for a long time......
Why smuggling weapons all the way from Cambodia to Southern Thailand while Malaysia is just a hop away? Or, you can just buy weapons inside Thailand, in Myanmar and Malaysia.
Of course, the arrogant Thais won't dare say such a thing to Malaysia because Malaysia will demand concrete evidence. This pathetic nation always try to make Cambodia look bad.
By the way, it wasn't the Thais who allow Cambodian refugees to stay in their territory. They were pressured by the U.N. to accept Cambodian refugees and they could also see huge economic gains by agreeing to it. Remember those Cambodian refugees who were trucked away by the Thai soldiers and dumped off the Dangrek Mountain into the mine fields? Believe it or not, it was the Vietnamese soldiers who rescued those Cambodian refugees from the mine fields. Cambodians were robbed, raped and murdered by these Thai criminals. Once again, the U.N. came to the rescue and the Thais claimed all the credits for it.
Because Malaysia is well armed and equipped. They can't mess with Malaysia. So Cambodia is to blame. And this is very shameful to HUN SEN. He should upgrade his army or military. HUN SEN should ban all THAI products enter Cambodia. Without Thai we can live oh come on we have been lived without thai so many years. I know we can do it. HUN SEN WAKE UP. The money you got from cutting down trees should be good enough to upgrade your army.
Most of the Hun Sen's RCAF Generals are Phkay Chor (Thief Stars) and Pirate Sea. We know since a long time that those Phkay Chor especially the King of Sea Pirate Admiral Tea Vinh, Tea Banh's bother, is one of the ring leader of Weapon smuggling.
Viet Nam has 1.4 million active army with full gears,Laos has minimal number of army made up of Viets and so Cambodia has 613 Generals for armed forces alone and most of generals receive chump change for a living.
Thus few with big mansions like Tea Banh or relatives seem fit description as smugglers.
Bangkok roeloum Nom Penh roeliay Saigon khchat khchay sabbay Yala...
Thailand needs another coup before ASEAN signs its draft charter to discourage coup and nuclear arm build up.
Myanmar arms come from North, Laos supplies come from within, ethnics supply arms from Chieng Mai/Rai area.There goes Siam uprising in full blown in new millennium.
RCAF Generals,If you keep burning all those SAM away for few dollars.When 59 of F16, 38 of F5 and 36 of L-39 of RTAF fly over your heads.what are you gonna shoot them down??.
SLING SHOT???...
betcha all shit/pee on your pants.
This is laughable! It seems that the fucken Thaicong know a lot of stuff about weapon smuggling from Cambodia but they never provide concrete evidence to support their claim!
The Thaicong are fuck now for messing with the Muslim!
Halaluya!!!
Thai are suspicious of everyone around tham. That is a real shame.
They don't get along with Malaysia or Mayanma and us right next to them? with our own people as muslim ourself? Oh boy!
Just remember Paranoid kills and that won't make us safe and Thai,The Saint.
Look out everyone! get yourself in safe place. It's one of those Thai's cheap excuse and you don't want to get caught in between.
What we can do to protect ourself is not really having to be with the Thaicong, but show our gratitude to the world that we are a peaceful Nation who wants nothing, but peace and work closely with them to show that gratitude.
All Khmer Muslim should be showing this special part and don't let the rest of us or the 90% of none- Khmers Muslim be the victim for you. We are innocent and need nothing of that.
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