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Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Bangkok Post: Paramilitary/Vigilantes Murder Passengers Returning from Funeral for Gov't Official

Army admits southern killings


Bangkok Post

By Post Reporters

Village defence volunteers attacked a pick-up truck carrying students and other passengers returning from a funeral on Monday, killing four people and wounding five, the army admitted yesterday. The shooting, in Yala's Bannang Sata district, provoked angry protests by villagers.

"It should not have happened," army spokesman Acra Thiproj said, adding that the incident was regrettable.

Col Acra said not all the passengers in the vehicle were students. Some were insurgent sympathisers and they had provoked the defence volunteers who were on duty.

"It should not have happened," army spokesman Acra Thiproj said, adding that the incident was regrettable.

Col Acra said not all the passengers in the vehicle were students. Some were insurgent sympathisers and they had provoked the defence volunteers who were on duty.

The passengers were attacked on their way back from the funeral of the Khuen Bang Lang tambon administration organisation chief, who was shot dead hours earlier the same day.


I don't get this story. Vigilantes stopped a pickup and murdered the passengers, yet these same passengers were returning from a funeral for a tambon chief.

What the hell is the military doing? These idiotic generals have been ripping off the country for so long that they have forgotten to do their actual jobs, which is to defend the country from terrorists.

Why are vigilantes doing the army's work?


Villagers parade charred body of victim for Gen Sonthi in Yala

The Nation

Some 200 people paraded the charred remain of a woman who was shot dead and set ablaze through streets in Yala's Muang district to to protest the unending violence in the deep south.


Militants shot dead Patcharaporn Bunmart, 26, on Wednesday and burned her body in Yala's Muang district. The victim was on her way to work.

The villagers wrapped her body in a white cloth and placed it at the staircase leading into a government building where Gen Sonthi Boonyaratglin, chief of head of the Thai junta, was meeting with local leaders.


The villagers of her village they wanted to show Sonthi how gruesome the attacks have become and to demand protection for the Buddhists in the province.


You have vigilantes opening fire on pick-ups and villagers dragging terrorist victims through the streets in protest of the military's incompetence.

WTF is the military doing?

3 comments:

hobby said...

And what is going to happen to the vigilantes?

Is there going to be a full investigation, and prosecutions if their actions were unwarranted?

It's a very difficult environment in the south, but the rule of law needs to be applied consistently to all sides.

fall said...

The "Villager parade char victim" story sound fishy.
Nation say 200, Bangkok Post say 1,000, but last night TITV news practice yet another self-censorship. Kitti reported 1,000, but local TITV newsman confirm around 10,000(may be panic or over-estimate?). And right at that, Kitti changed the story and not mention again.

Do I smell a cover-up?

Anonymous said...

Fonzi, you know full well what the Thai military is doing. They are doing what they are always doing. Talking about 'what they are going to do' same as the Thai police. And talking is all that gets done )lets all create another nice committee to do some more talking).

I recall some clown bragging 'there is nothing under the sun that the Royal Thai Police cannot do'. Except stopping drivers going through red lights, catching criminals unless they confess or are informed on, behave with professionalism, be honest... book someone driving a Mercedes, etc etc. if talk was saleable they would all be millionaires like their police and army generals.

Carter