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Southeast Asia
Southern Thai shootout leaves three dead by roadside
2007-09-09
The bullet-riddled bodies of Dusongthawa deputy village chief Areeyah Mae-sae and two men wanted in connection with the ethnic cleansing insurgency in the deep South were found on the side of a road in Yaha district yesterday, police said. The two other men were identified by police as Hibroheng Leejeah and Sakariya Masupeh, both on the authorities' list of suspects linked to the ongoing violence in Yala province's Raman district. According to an officer at Kotabaru Police Station who asked not to be named, the two men tried to kill Areeyah but the deputy village chief managed to return fire. The incident ended in the deaths of all three men.

Meanwhile, in Narathiwat's Sungai Padi district, a 200-strong special security task force surrounded Tambon Tohdeng and took 13 individuals in for questioning under the Emergency Law. Two are believed to be active members of the new generation of terrorists insurgents, a source said. One man with a warrant out for his arrest fled before authorities arrived. A search of 70 homes in Tohdeng turned up one shotgun, an unspecified number of ammunition rounds and one kilogram of fertiliser that could be used to make bombs.

In Yala, Walitha Machai, 30, a rubber tapper in Tambon Bannang Sata, was shot dead at close range. Her body was found on the side of the road along with her motorbike.

And:

The Internal Security Operations Command (ISOC) has assessed its performance by making public its progress in handling the southern violence. According to ISOC official, General Akra Thiparoj, 147 suspected southern separatists and sympathizers are in police custody. The suspects have been separated into two groups – 126 are being held in Pattani province’s Nong Chik district and 21 are being held in Yala’s Muang district.

Genaral Akra affirmed that all suspects are being properly treated and assured that family members and relatives of the suspects will not be barred from visiting them.
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