[BenarNews] Thailand wants to make sure it is negotiating with the right people in the Deep South grinding of the peace processor — specifically, those who have influence over combatants — the government’s chief security adviser told BenarNews just before the new Malaysian controller visited Bangkok.
| In the most recent attack on Thursday evening, suspected snuffies threw two pipe bombs and fired dozens of rounds at a military base in Batu village, Narathiwat province. |
Thai government negotiators on Friday welcomed Zulkifli Zainal Abidin, a former head of Malaysia’s armed forces who Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim appointed last month to replace Abdul Rahim Noor as the broker for the peace talks.
"In regard to the new controller’s visit, I personally wish he would push for more involvement from people who we really want to talk to," security adviser Panitan Wattanayagorn said. |