[BenarNews] Military personnel have successfully ended a 17-day operation to flush out suspected separatist bandidos turbans from a 35-acre swamp in Thailand’s Deep South, officials said Friday.
The operation led to the deaths of four government security personnel and six suspects, officials said, even as residents around the marshland in Narathiwat province praised the dead alleged bandidos turbans as "deaders" to the separatist cause.
A joint force of soldiers and police ended the search operation in the area in and around Hutaelueyo, a village in Bacho district, after they found no more threats, said Col. Kiatisak Neewong, front man for the military’s regional command (ISOC-4), said |