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| Southeast Asia |
| Thailand arrests 3 Muslims for southern bombs |
| 2007-02-20 |
| Thai security forces have arrested three Muslim men in connection with a series of bombs and shootings that killed eight people across the Muslim far south at the weekend, the region's military chief said on Tuesday. All three had confessed and been charged, Southern Army commander Lieutenant-General Viroach Buacharoon told a news conference. He declined to give details of the charges, or name the men. He added that the men, who were in their 20s and 30s, had had "intensive military training" from a militant group called RKK, but again declined to give any details. References to Runda Kumpalan Kecil -- which means "Small Patrol Group" in Malay -- first surfaced in a Bangkok Post report in January 2006. The report described RKK as one of several militant groups operating in the provinces near the Malaysian border. The paper said the group used the home of an Islamic teacher called Amran Masor in Thailand's Pattani province as a training base. |
| Posted by:ryuge |