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Southeast Asia
Thai troops kill two terrorists separatists in deep South
2009-05-28
Thai troops killed two suspected Muslim terrorists separatists in the troubled province of Yala where terrorists insurgents set off eight bombs and fires on Wendesday, police said Thursday. The two suspected terrorists separatists were killed in a joint police-army ambush at 8 pm Wednesday as they returned to Yaha district of Yala, 700 kilometres south of Bangkok.

'We think these two terrorists men were members of a new terrorist group who have recently received terrorist training in a neighbouring country,' Yaha Police Captain Thannapon Yawapak said. According to military intelligence, more than 500 Muslim terrorists youths have left their homes in the Yaha neighbourhood to receive terrorist military training in the 'neighbouring country,' Thannapon said.

More on yesterday's attacks:

Four warehouses in the city came under arson attack, damaging more than Bt100 million worth of property. The cost of other damage inflicted by a bomb attack in front of the Yala Rama Hotel, as well as the torching of auto showrooms and a pylon to relay mobile phone signals, has yet to be calculated. The first bomb exploded at around 4am in front of a hotel in the heart of Yala, shattering the windows and cars parked nearby. Two grenades were thrown at a cash machine and a billboard pole in front of a car showroom. Fire fighters took two hours to bring the fire at the warehouses under control.

The attack came just before Deputy Prime Minister Suthep Thaugsuban, the government's security tsar, was scheduled to make a visit to the restive region. Suthep said earlier the situation had not improved the way the government had hoped, and planned to use the visit to draw up a better strategy. Army chief, General Anupong Paochinda, downplayed the attacks, calling them "normal occurrences".

Police said the attackers used home-made explosives with shrapnel made of steel rods cut into pieces. They were set off electronically by remote control, possibly with mobile phones. In spite of high security in the area, militants were able to enter the heart of the city and retreat quickly before the security units could respond.

In Bangkok, Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva defended the government's overall policy but added that within two weeks a newer, more polished policy for the deep South would be announced.
Posted by:ryuge

#1  I think you'r right, ryuge. The Muslims don't want to 'separate' from Thailand, they want to make it Muslim. Interim objectives might only be a given province, but their religion mandates uniting the Ummah, not separating a Muslim part from an infidel part. It's sort of like the 'two state' solution for Paleostine - it's only an option as long as neither one of the two states is Israel.
Posted by: Glenmore   2009-05-28 12:55  

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