Pressing on toward final victory. "Eleven Dead in Thai Militant Attacks: Police," from the Jakarta Globe, October 9 (thanks to S.B.):
Suspected Muslim militants have shot dead 11 people including three paramilitary rangers in a single day of bloodshed in Thailand’s insurgency-plagued deep south, police said Tuesday.The rangers were ambushed while traveling in a pick-up truck on Monday in Pattani province in the Muslim-majority border region, where an eight-year conflict has claimed thousands of lives.
On the same day, four Buddhist rubber tappers died on their way to work in two separate gun attacks in Pattani, while a pair of Muslim men were killed in a drive-by shooting in neighboring Yala province, police said.
Two vegetable vendors were also shot dead in Songkhla province, which had been relatively untouched by the violence until a number of attacks this year, including a series of car bombs in April that left 15 people dead.
A complex insurgency calling for greater autonomy has plagued Thailand’s far south near the border with Malaysia since 2004, claiming more than 5,300 lives, both Buddhist and Muslim, with near daily bomb or gun attacks.
The authorities said in August they were holding informal peace talks with some Muslim insurgent groups, in an apparent policy reversal that followed a spike in attacks.
“Some militant groups don’t want a peaceful solution so they look for an opportunity to terrorize people,” southern army spokesman Colonel Pramote Prom-in told AFP on Tuesday.
“We’re trying to find measures to prevent this kind of violence but still haven’t succeeded,” he added.
Try more origami.
The militants are not thought to be part of a global jihad movement but are rebelling against a history of perceived discrimination against ethnic Malay Muslims by successive Thai governments and alleged rights abuses by the army.
Of course!
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Of course the jihadists will keep on commit murders for their Islamic cause even after the so called "peace talks" with them. For in any "dialouge" with those who are engaging in the militant jihadism of Islam will come to nothing at best. For such "negotiations" with these jihadist characters worthless and useless for the Islamists are very disingenous in any "talks." Furthermore, Pslam 55;19,20,of the Bible, gives this subject some light. For it reads "Such men do violence to those at peace with them and break their promised word; their speech is smoother than butter but their thoughts are of war." [NEB]