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    Thailand to declare kill zones as violence rages in Muslim south
    by Anusak Kongklang

    Thailand plans to declare "violent" zones in Muslim southern provinces where security forces will seek to hunt down and kill Islamic insurgents blamed for a surge of deadly attacks, the defense minister said Thursday.

    "At the moment, the violence is escalating more and more. They are killing indiscriminately, and the situation will continue until those militants are killed," Gen Thammarak Issarangkura Na Ayutthaya said.

    Each district in Narathiwat, Pattani and Yala provinces will be declared either "violent" or "peaceful", he told reporters after a special national security meeting to address the mounting bloodshed.

    "We will have to fight them in the violent zones," he warned, without specifying which areas would fall in the military's crosshairs.

    The minister said a spate of beheadings this month -- including a man decapitated in broad daylight wednesday at a roadside teashop in Narathiwat province -- was not necessarily the works of insurgents.
    To sit down with these men and deal with them as the representatives of an enlightened and civilized people is to deride ones own dignity and to invite the disaster of their treachery - General Matthew Ridgway

  • #2
    Originally posted by troung
    ...The minister said a spate of beheadings this month -- including a man decapitated in broad daylight wednesday at a roadside teashop in Narathiwat province -- was not necessarily the works of insurgents.
    Right...it could have just been a fraternity prank...
    "We will go through our federal budget – page by page, line by line – eliminating those programs we don’t need, and insisting that those we do operate in a sensible cost-effective way." -President Barack Obama 11/25/2008

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    • #3
      Come on what happens in Thailand stays in Thailand...

      But truth be told the Thai miliatry is another of those militaries one does not want to mess with in SE Asia...
      To sit down with these men and deal with them as the representatives of an enlightened and civilized people is to deride ones own dignity and to invite the disaster of their treachery - General Matthew Ridgway

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      • #4
        and it spreads...

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        • #5
          What i find interesting is that the Islamists all over the world, have started beheading the innocents.Some sort of trademark for these guys.
          Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie!'...till you can find a rock. ;)

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          • #6
            The North eastern province of Malaysia bordering Thailand is ruled by the BAS which is a Islamic political party.

            Their influence is also in Southern Thailand which is also Moslem.

            However, South Thailand is also a drug running haven and so Islam and drug running has mixed causing the violence.


            "Some have learnt many Tricks of sly Evasion, Instead of Truth they use Equivocation, And eke it out with mental Reservation, Which is to good Men an Abomination."

            I don't have to attend every argument I'm invited to.

            HAKUNA MATATA

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            • #7
              Originally posted by Ray
              However, South Thailand is also a drug running haven and so Islam and drug running has mixed causing the violence.
              These things happen behind the smoke screen of relegious extremism
              What's the difference between people who pray in church and those who pray in casinos?
              The ones in the casinos are serious.

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