Thread: Bomb at pork stall in market in Thailand's south kills three, wounds 22

BANGKOK (Reuters) - A motorcycle bomb exploded in a market in Thailand’s southern Yala province on Monday, killing three people and wounding 22, a spokesman for the Internal Security Operations Command (ISOC) said, the first such attack in the region in months.

The mostly Muslim provinces of Narathiwat, Pattani and Yala in Thailand’s far south are home to a long-running insurgency by ethnic Malay Muslims fighting for autonomy in which more than 6,000 people have been killed since 2004.

“The criminals put a bomb in a motorcycle and placed it next to a market cart. The force of the explosion caused three people to lose their lives,” said ISOC spokesman Pramote Prom-in. The ISOC is a government security force that operates in the region.

No group claimed immediate responsibility for the attack on Monday, which took place at a morning market.

Police said the motorcycle was placed near a stall selling pork, which is strictly forbidden for Muslims under Islamic Law.

It was not immediately clear whether the bomb was placed at the pork stall in a deliberate attempt to target Thai Buddhists.

The stall’s female owner and a male customer were among the three people killed, police said. The bomb blew off chunks of the market’s corrugated tin roof and wrecked nearby stalls.

The southern provinces have seen hundreds of attacks since 2004, many of them deadly, but there had been fewer violent incidents of late.

Analysts who monitor the conflict say violence from the insurgency fell to an historic low in 2017 despite the fact that talks aimed at bringing peace gained little traction.

Thailand’s military government has tried to revive talks with rebel groups initiated by the previous civilian government, but they have gone almost nowhere.

Resistance to Buddhist rule from Bangkok has existed for decades in the predominantly Muslim southern provinces, waning briefly in the 1990s before resurfacing violently in 2004.

Reporting by Amy Sawitta Lefevre, Surapan Boonthanom and Panarat Thepgumpanat; Writing by Amy Sawitta Lefevre; Editing by Paul Tait

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Did not see it on the news at the joker will not be talking about it in his Friday rant

"Safe zone" established at market in Yala

Yala, 23rd January 2018 (NNT) – Security forces have beefed up operations and established a "safety zone" at a fresh market, where a motorcycle bomb attack took place on January 22nd, 2018.

Security measures have been tightened at at Phimolchai market, following the bombing which killed three people and wounded 18 others.

Police and military officers together with territorial defense volunteers have been deployed at the market entrances to keep a close watch on people and suspicious objects.

The atmosphere at the market was quiet with few visitors. A number of vendors also closed their shops today (January 23rd).


National News Bureau Of Thailand | "Safe zone" established at market in Yala

Nuslims behaving in a civilised manner as usual, if they keep it up they may get what they want

They are trying to scare the people



From Thairath, January 26, 2018
Title: Please don’t be scared.

On the paper: Project on the public’s participation to solve and develop the southern provinces

Words along right side of the paper: Korportor [Korportorsuanna]

On man’s suit at top of paper: SBPAC [Southern Border Provinces Administrative Center]

On the suit of the man with glasses: Special representative from the government

On person at left: People

On person at bottom: the public sector

On the bomb blast: Bomb in Yala

On the black below: Create chaos in the south

Phi Nooring: Gooding a good people, people will not afraid.

Mouse: Bombing for money [refers to the belief that those carrying out the bombing a usually young men paid by other unknown parties to stir up trouble]
[Refers to the attempt to solve the violence in the southernmost provinces in Thailand led by the Southern Border Provinces Administrative Center and the Korportorsuanna (organization that encourages public participation to solve the problems of the Thai deep south).

A recent bombing at a market in Yala shocked the south as it raised fears that militants might attempt to target areas to kill larger numbers of people at once.]

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They are trying to scare the people | 2Bangkok.com

Which "they"?
The insurgents or the government?

Clever target to avoid blowing up fellow believers.

Why not take their rebellious angst out on their real historic opponent - the government and associated infrastructure.
Making statements such as this on innocents doesn't lead to favour within the community.

Illogical.

^Exactly. General Mayhem could use a few explosions to justify delaying elections further I imagine. Would save him the trouble of planting them himself.

If the bombs stop, Utapao becomes an aircity, peace breaks out throughout the country and the people are happy under ersatz Squarehead policies, our glorious leaders will find some other reason to delay. Who's going to argue!

Originally Posted by HuangLao

Why not take their rebellious angst out on their real historic opponent - the government and associated infrastructure.
Making statements such as this on innocents doesn't lead to favour within the community.

Illogical.

Because they're C U N T S Jeff.

Thai Deep South: BRN Leader Says Attacks Aim to Undermine Surrender Program

Violence in Thailand’s Deep South escalated in recent weeks as hardline insurgents tried to dissuade comrades from surrendering through the military’s Bring People Home rehabilitation program, a leader of the region’s biggest rebel group said Wednesday.


Hardliners launched the attacks this month to create fear among other insurgents, the political wing leader of Barisan Revolusi Nasional (the National Revolutionary Front, or BRN), who identified himself as Uzmai, said in a rare interview with BenarNews. Citing concerns for his own safety, he asked that his identity and location not be publicized.


“They claimed they conducted the attacks to challenge the program and to create fear among the insurgent members, giving them a message to not surrender. So the situation got more violent,” Uzmai told BenarNews.


In early February, Lt. Gen. Piyawat Nakwanich, the army commander in Thailand’s southern border region, presented nearly 300 enrollees identified as insurgents, including BRN members, as they surrendered symbolically as part of the newly revamped Bring People Home project.


In addition, more than 100 members of the Patani United Liberation Organization, another southern Thai rebel group, traveled from Malaysia where they had settled years ago to sign up for the program.


Bring People Home allows enrollees to live in their home villages while attending activities such as “attitude adjustment” indoctrination sessions and vocational training aimed at helping them get jobs and reintegrate back into civilian life after laying down their weapons.


Since the ceremony on Feb. 2, insurgents mounted several attacks across the Deep South that injured 22 security personnel, seven civilians and five students.

Five other officials and eight civilians were shot and killed during the same period, but their deaths have not been linked to the insurgent attacks.


“The existing BRN members wreak havoc every time they can and with whatever they can. We saw a lot more officials targeted, be they vice village headman, village headman, soldiers or government contractors,” Uzmai said.


Tensions exist among BRN militants who have stayed in the Deep South and others who moved abroad with their families to escape the violence, the political wing leader added.


“The rumor of rifts in the BRN is true,” he said. “Over the past decades, militants who have conducted violent attacks can’t stay at home. Their families have faced hardship while the leaders live a good life, better than a tycoon.”


Uzmai said the government had offered good incentives for insurgents to join the rehabilitation program, and Malay-speaking residents of the predominantly Muslim Deep South did not object when hardcore insurgents were captured, unless they were tortured by the Thai military.



‘Up to the people to help’


Piyawat, meanwhile, called the increase in violence normal.


“They continue attacks as they did. We use the lawful way to stop them,” he said. “I want to stay in this region. I want to successfully create safety zones in the three provinces in the Deep South and the 14 provinces of the South.


“It is up to people to help. I want those people to come back and help develop the country,” he said.


A Deep South analyst said the government must maintain a peaceful approach in the region.


“Lately, the perpetrators want to show off their strength and counter officials’ implementation of the program,” Deep South Watch director Srisompob Jitpiromsri told BenarNews.


“The government must keep a cool head,” he said, adding that he expected the situation in the Deep South to improve soon.


Violence has killed close to 7,000 people in the Thai Deep South since the decades-old separatist insurgency re-ignited 14 years ago.


https://www.benarnews.org/english/ne...018154025.html