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Southeast Asia
One dead, 24 injured in three attacks in southern Thailand
2010-04-26
One man was killed and 24 persons were injured in three terrorist presumed insurgent attacks in Thailand's southern border provinces of Pattani and Yala on Monday.

In Pattani's Mae Lan district, a roadside bombing on the Pattani-Yala Road wounded 14 soldiers on military vehicles enroute from Phetchabun to an army base in Yala. All 14 soldiers remain hospitalised, four seriously injured.

The responding security and bomb squad found scattered fragments of a motorcycle, portions of a cooking gas cylinder in the area, and the targeted army vehicle 200 metres from the scene, severely damaged. Four suspects on motorcycles were seen leaving the scene.

Meanwhile in Pho district, terrorists suspected insurgents with assault rifles fired on a municipal garbage truck, killing one worker and wounding four others, Pol Lt- Col Nukul Thaneerat of Khok Pho police station said.

Meanwhile, six soldiers of a special task force in nearby Yala were wounded in a command-detotated bombing while they on the way to an army base in Than To district. Six wounded men were hospitalised , two with serious wounds.
Posted by:ryuge

#1  I have the solution to Thailand's border problem: turn over security for the three conflicted provinces to the Japanese. Not the Japanese Army, or police, but a private security force created just to bring security and stability to these provinces, and paid by the increase in security. The security forces get 250,000 Baht for each province for each day there is no incidence of terror. They lose 1000 baht for each terror incident, and 10,000 baht for each death by the terrorists. They get NOTHING for killing terrorists, but they don't LOSE anything for killing them, either. It won't take six months for the whole thing to come to an end.

The Thais, mostly Buddhists, are just too pacific to do the kind of whupash that's needed to put an end to the nonsense. The Japanese, on the most part, don't have that drawback. The Thais also don't have quite the distaste for Japanese on their soil the rest of Southeast Asia has.
Posted by: Old Patriot   2010-04-26 16:09  

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