PATANI DARUSALAM: - Suspected Patani freedom fighters killed ten Collaborators in a flurry of attacks in the ethnic Malay provinces, the Thailand colonial army said Tuesday, the fifth anniversary of a bloody assault by security forces against Patani guerrillas at a mosque.
In the deadliest incident, at least six gunmen in a pickup truck stormed into a house in Jala province late Monday, opening fire on a ethnic Malay family of five, army spokesman Col. Parinya Chaidilok said. Four people were killed.
Parinya says two ethnic rubber plantation workers were later found dead in the compound of a nearby mosque. Thai security officials blamed Patani freedom fighters bent on stirring up communal tension between ethnic Siam and ethnic Malay.
The incidents came ahead of the fifth anniversary of the April 28, 2004, assault on the Krue Se mosque by Thai security forces, in which 32 insurgents were killed.
Other clashes the same day between Ethnic Malay and Thai colonial forces resulted in the deaths of a total of 107 people at the hands of security forces, turning the mosque attack into a symbol of the heavy-handed tactics of Thai colonial.
The killings fueled a nascent insurgency that has claimed more than 3,600 lives in the ethnic Malay provinces of Patani, Jala and Menara and some parts of neighboring Senggora.
In the latest attack, a Buddhist government official was shot and killed in a drive-by shooting Tuesday in Patani, Parinya said. In a separate incident Monday evening, gunmen fatally shot a ethnic who served as a government-hired security volunteer in Jala province.
Another ethnic man was killed in a drive-by shooting in the same province Monday evening.
In another district of Jala province, suspected militants fatally shot a ethnic Siam rubber plantation worker Tuesday.
Insurgent attacks - which include drive-by shootings and bombings - are believed intended to frighten ethnic Siam residents into leaving the area. They also target ethnic Malay who they believe have collaborated with the government, including soldiers, police, informants and collaborators.
The identity and precise goals of the insurgents have never been publicly declared, and responsibility is rarely claimed for attacks. They pursue an ill-defined agenda that sometimes seems to call for an ethnic Malay state separate from ethnic Siam-dominated Thailand, but is mostly a reaction to a history of discrimination.
In the ethnic Malays Malay provinces have long complained of discrimination, especial in educational and job opportunities, in Buddhist-dominated Thailand.
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Widow killed by suspected Thai colnial polices
PATANI DARUSALAMA; - A widow was shot dead by suspected Thai colonial polices Malay province Menara Tuesday morning, media here reported.
The widow, a 45-year-old Malay Muslim woman, was on her way from home for work at a rubber plantation when two suspected Thai colonial riding on a motorcycle chased her and opened fire at her in Bachok district, Menara Province at around 6.30 a.m. Tuesday Monday.
The victim had five children to look after.
In the three Malay provinces; Patani Jala dan Menara, have been stricken by Patani Freedom fighters since early 2004,which has killed over 3,300 people in the region. Thai colonial have blamed Patani freedom fighters as the culprit for the violence.
The widow, a 45-year-old Malay Muslim woman, was on her way from home for work at a rubber plantation when two suspected Thai colonial riding on a motorcycle chased her and opened fire at her in Bachok district, Menara Province at around 6.30 a.m. Tuesday Monday.
The victim had five children to look after.
In the three Malay provinces; Patani Jala dan Menara, have been stricken by Patani Freedom fighters since early 2004,which has killed over 3,300 people in the region. Thai colonial have blamed Patani freedom fighters as the culprit for the violence.
Thursday, June 5, 2008
Four kill in The Malay Provinces (South Thailand)
PATANI DARUSALAM: - - A powerful bomb ripped through the annual Thai Red Cross Fair in Jala province on Tuesday evening, killing one and injured four passerby.
The same evening also saw two Malay men and a woman killed when gunmen sprayed their house with gunfire as they were conducting evening prayers.
In Patani, two police officers were critically injured when a roadside bomb went off in Tambon Tanyong Dalor.
The two officers were among six security details for public school teachers in the restive region where more than 3,300 have been died due to daily violence since January 2004.
The two were identified as Pol PFC Laemthong Boochaphan, 35, and Pol Pvt Pathompong Pipatrachai, 33. Both suffered several shrapnel wounds through out their faces and bodies.
Government spokesman Wichianchot Sukchotrat told reporters that the Cabinet has instructed various ministries, including the Southern Border Provinces Administrative Centre to study what lessons could be learnt from the way Indonesia tackled separatist unrest in its Aceh province.
The cabinet on Tuesday ordered the interior ministry and the southern administrative body "to study the Aceh peace model in order to use information to solve our own southern unrest problem," Wichianchot said.
Aceh proindependence rebels signed a peace pact with the Indonesian government in Helsinki in 2005, giving up their fight for independence in return for broadranging autonomy.
The peace deal ended almost three decades of violence that had claimed more than 15,000 lives.
Patani freedom fighters in south Thailand's Malayspeaking south erupted offandon since the Malay region comes under Thailand's direct rule just over 100 years ago.
This latest wave of violence erupted in late 2001 but the government would not acknowledge that a new generation of insurgents has surfaced in the region until the January 4, 2004 raid on an army battalion in Menara. Patani freedom fighters made off with more than 300 pieces of weapons after killing four soldiers. Scores who were on guard duties and residing in the garrison were released unharmed.
The same evening also saw two Malay men and a woman killed when gunmen sprayed their house with gunfire as they were conducting evening prayers.
In Patani, two police officers were critically injured when a roadside bomb went off in Tambon Tanyong Dalor.
The two officers were among six security details for public school teachers in the restive region where more than 3,300 have been died due to daily violence since January 2004.
The two were identified as Pol PFC Laemthong Boochaphan, 35, and Pol Pvt Pathompong Pipatrachai, 33. Both suffered several shrapnel wounds through out their faces and bodies.
Government spokesman Wichianchot Sukchotrat told reporters that the Cabinet has instructed various ministries, including the Southern Border Provinces Administrative Centre to study what lessons could be learnt from the way Indonesia tackled separatist unrest in its Aceh province.
The cabinet on Tuesday ordered the interior ministry and the southern administrative body "to study the Aceh peace model in order to use information to solve our own southern unrest problem," Wichianchot said.
Aceh proindependence rebels signed a peace pact with the Indonesian government in Helsinki in 2005, giving up their fight for independence in return for broadranging autonomy.
The peace deal ended almost three decades of violence that had claimed more than 15,000 lives.
Patani freedom fighters in south Thailand's Malayspeaking south erupted offandon since the Malay region comes under Thailand's direct rule just over 100 years ago.
This latest wave of violence erupted in late 2001 but the government would not acknowledge that a new generation of insurgents has surfaced in the region until the January 4, 2004 raid on an army battalion in Menara. Patani freedom fighters made off with more than 300 pieces of weapons after killing four soldiers. Scores who were on guard duties and residing in the garrison were released unharmed.
Thursday, March 6, 2008
Thai colonial police killed in ambush
PATANI DARUSALAM: - A policeman was killed and two fellow officers critically injured in an ambush in Kota Bharu Raman district of Jala yesterday.
The slain officer was identified as Pol Snr Sgt-Maj Muztaz Sohlem, 48.
The injured officers were Pol Cpl Sathaporn Kaewsikao, 31, and Pol L/C Chaiwat Chaiwee, 23.
Thai colonial Police said the policemen were attacked while they were out gathering intelligence information in the neighbourhood.
The assailants retreated after a 10-minute exchange of gunfire with the officers.
In Menara, nine sacks of urea fertiliser, a key component in bomb-making, were seized in a pre-dawn raid on a village in Tabal district yesterday.
A 200-strong combined force of soldiers, police and local provincial administrators raided more than 50 households in Sri Pa-ngan village and stumbled upon a large quantity of urea fertiliser.
The search followed a bomb blast at a local school in the same district on Tuesday.
Four soldiers in a teachers' escort team were wounded, two of them critically, in the explosion.
After the two-hour operation, the authorities seized nine sacks of urea fertiliser at a house owned by Cek Yusof Haji Baka.
In Patani, two Thai policemen were severely wounded by a bomb at a market in Panarek district yesterday.
The slain officer was identified as Pol Snr Sgt-Maj Muztaz Sohlem, 48.
The injured officers were Pol Cpl Sathaporn Kaewsikao, 31, and Pol L/C Chaiwat Chaiwee, 23.
Thai colonial Police said the policemen were attacked while they were out gathering intelligence information in the neighbourhood.
The assailants retreated after a 10-minute exchange of gunfire with the officers.
In Menara, nine sacks of urea fertiliser, a key component in bomb-making, were seized in a pre-dawn raid on a village in Tabal district yesterday.
A 200-strong combined force of soldiers, police and local provincial administrators raided more than 50 households in Sri Pa-ngan village and stumbled upon a large quantity of urea fertiliser.
The search followed a bomb blast at a local school in the same district on Tuesday.
Four soldiers in a teachers' escort team were wounded, two of them critically, in the explosion.
After the two-hour operation, the authorities seized nine sacks of urea fertiliser at a house owned by Cek Yusof Haji Baka.
In Patani, two Thai policemen were severely wounded by a bomb at a market in Panarek district yesterday.
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
Two policemen killed in Jala province
PATANI DARUSALAM: - Suspected Patani freedom fighters have killed two Thai colonial policemen and injured three others in a bombing and a shooting in the Malay Muslims province, Thailand police said Wednesday.
A 40-year-old police sergeant was killed and his 52-year-old colleague seriously wounded when a bomb hidden under a bridge exploded in Pattani province early Wednesday, Thai provincial police said.
In nearby Jala province on Tuesday night, a 48-year-old sergeant was shot dead and two other police officers were wounded when armed Patani freedom fighters ambushed their pick-up truck.
Two Malay civilians -- a man and an elderly woman -- were also seriously injured in separate shootings in Patani on Tuesday.
More than 2,900 people have been killed since unrest broke out in January 2004 in the south, which was an independence sultanate until Thailand annexed it in 1902, provoking decades of tension. - PINA
A 40-year-old police sergeant was killed and his 52-year-old colleague seriously wounded when a bomb hidden under a bridge exploded in Pattani province early Wednesday, Thai provincial police said.
In nearby Jala province on Tuesday night, a 48-year-old sergeant was shot dead and two other police officers were wounded when armed Patani freedom fighters ambushed their pick-up truck.
Two Malay civilians -- a man and an elderly woman -- were also seriously injured in separate shootings in Patani on Tuesday.
More than 2,900 people have been killed since unrest broke out in January 2004 in the south, which was an independence sultanate until Thailand annexed it in 1902, provoking decades of tension. - PINA
Monday, December 31, 2007
One killed, dozens injured in bombings in Sungai Golok
PATANI DARUSALAM: - A string of bombs planted by Patani freedom fighters rocked in Sungai Golok Monday, killing one person and injuring dozens near the Malaysian border, Thai colonial polic,said.
Explosives planted at entertainment venues across Sunngai Golok town in Menara province wounded 27 people in the early hours of Monday, two of them seriously.
"It was likely done by Patani freedom fighters who target innocent people during new year," local police chief Colonel Prabphan Meemongkon told AFP.
He said police managed to defuse one bomb at a hotel in the Malay region, where rebels are waging a bloody battle for a separate state, but five devices struck two other hotels nearby.
A Thai colonial police officer in Menara said that explosives had been packed into cigarette packets, which were planted inside a hotel disco. he first blast hit at about 12:40 am Monday, sending people fleeing into a hotel car park, where another bomb was hidden.
Another blast hit a hotel karaoke bar.
Later in nearby Jala province, one person was killed and four were injured when a bomb hidden in a motorcycle exploded outside a restaurant.
More than 2,800 people have been killed in four years of separatist unrest in Thailand's south, an ethnic Malay sultanate until Buddhist Thailand annexed it a century ago, provoking decades of tension.
Monday's attacks come a year after blasts hit the Thai capital Bangkok on New Year's Eve 2006, killing three. No one has yet been charged in connection with those attacks.
Security has been stepped up across Malay provinces over the New Year holiday.
Explosives planted at entertainment venues across Sunngai Golok town in Menara province wounded 27 people in the early hours of Monday, two of them seriously.
"It was likely done by Patani freedom fighters who target innocent people during new year," local police chief Colonel Prabphan Meemongkon told AFP.
He said police managed to defuse one bomb at a hotel in the Malay region, where rebels are waging a bloody battle for a separate state, but five devices struck two other hotels nearby.
A Thai colonial police officer in Menara said that explosives had been packed into cigarette packets, which were planted inside a hotel disco. he first blast hit at about 12:40 am Monday, sending people fleeing into a hotel car park, where another bomb was hidden.
Another blast hit a hotel karaoke bar.
Later in nearby Jala province, one person was killed and four were injured when a bomb hidden in a motorcycle exploded outside a restaurant.
More than 2,800 people have been killed in four years of separatist unrest in Thailand's south, an ethnic Malay sultanate until Buddhist Thailand annexed it a century ago, provoking decades of tension.
Monday's attacks come a year after blasts hit the Thai capital Bangkok on New Year's Eve 2006, killing three. No one has yet been charged in connection with those attacks.
Security has been stepped up across Malay provinces over the New Year holiday.
Saturday, December 29, 2007
Serangan terhadap guru Siam meningkat
PATANI DARUSALAM: - Satu laporan rasmi berhubung pergolakan di wilayah suku Melayu mendakwa serangan ke atas sekolah dan guru meningkat mendadak tahun ini berbanding tempoh tiga tahun lalu, lapor Bangkok Post semalam.
Sebanyak 150 sekolah dibakar, manakala 20 guru dibunuh dalam pergolakan yang meragut lebih 2,800 nyawa sejak empat tahun lalu.
“Bagi tempoh 1 Januari hingga 27 Disember ini, sejumlah 148 sekolah dibakar - 56 di Patani; Jala (45); Menara (30) dan 17 lain di Sanggora,” kata Ketua Pegawai Daerah terbabit, Karun Sakulpradit.
Seramai 26 petugas pendidikan dibunuh, manakala 22 lain cedera. Ini termasuk 15 lelaki dan enam guru wanita selain lima petugas sekolah lainnya.
“Rekod menunjukkan bilangan guru dan petugas sekolah yang menjadi sasaran, lebih tinggi daripada tahun sebelumnya,” kata Karun.
Kes serangan terbaru berlaku Selasa dan Rabu lalu apabila sekumpulan penyerang disyaki Pejuang Pembebasan Patani, membakar empat sekolah di Patani dan Jala.
Malah, keadaan dilaporkan tegang sehingga memaksa lebih 10 sekolah terpaksa ditutup sementara di Patani kemarin, pada hari sama laporan itu dikeluarkan.
Zakaria Hasan, pemangku guru besar sekolah kampung Mako di daerah Kapho, berkata dia menerima panggilan telefon daripada seorang lelaki yang mengancam mengebom sekolah itu jika tidak menangguhkan sesi persekolahan. - PINA (sember berita dari Agensi)
Sebanyak 150 sekolah dibakar, manakala 20 guru dibunuh dalam pergolakan yang meragut lebih 2,800 nyawa sejak empat tahun lalu.
“Bagi tempoh 1 Januari hingga 27 Disember ini, sejumlah 148 sekolah dibakar - 56 di Patani; Jala (45); Menara (30) dan 17 lain di Sanggora,” kata Ketua Pegawai Daerah terbabit, Karun Sakulpradit.
Seramai 26 petugas pendidikan dibunuh, manakala 22 lain cedera. Ini termasuk 15 lelaki dan enam guru wanita selain lima petugas sekolah lainnya.
“Rekod menunjukkan bilangan guru dan petugas sekolah yang menjadi sasaran, lebih tinggi daripada tahun sebelumnya,” kata Karun.
Kes serangan terbaru berlaku Selasa dan Rabu lalu apabila sekumpulan penyerang disyaki Pejuang Pembebasan Patani, membakar empat sekolah di Patani dan Jala.
Malah, keadaan dilaporkan tegang sehingga memaksa lebih 10 sekolah terpaksa ditutup sementara di Patani kemarin, pada hari sama laporan itu dikeluarkan.
Zakaria Hasan, pemangku guru besar sekolah kampung Mako di daerah Kapho, berkata dia menerima panggilan telefon daripada seorang lelaki yang mengancam mengebom sekolah itu jika tidak menangguhkan sesi persekolahan. - PINA (sember berita dari Agensi)
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