Seven killed in Thailand's south
Getting ready: Thai soldiers get ready for a patrol in Thailand's restive southern Narathiwat province, yesterday. Picture: AFP
Monday, January 29, 2007
SEVEN perons were shot dead and twoother persons were injured in attacks by suspected Islamic militants in Thailand's insurgency-torn southern provinces, police said yesterday.
A 33-year-old person was gunned down in a drive-by shooting last Sunday as he rode a motorcycle to his home in Yala, one of three Muslim-majority provinces bordering Malaysia, police said.
In neighbouring Pattani province, a 46-year-old Buddhist man was also killed in a drive-by shooting last Sunday.
Meanwhile, two Buddhist couples were shot after insurgents opened fire on a home in Songkhla province, near Yala.
Three people were killed, and the fourth was seriously injured, police said.
Despite peace-building initiatives by Thailand's government, installed after a coup four months ago, violence in the three southernmost provinces of Yala, Pattani and Narathiwat has spiralled in recent months.
More than 1,800 people have been killed in three years of unrest in this region, which was an autonomous Malay sultanate until Thailand annexed it more than a century ago.
The ethnic violence sees no signs of abating.
Since last few months there has been a spate of killings and increase in mindless violence. A tense situation prevails in the Thailand's southern region.
People are too scared to venture out as dusk falls. There seems to be no semblance of law and order in the region.
The countries political leader had visited the violence-hit regions and appealed to the rebels to shun violence.
AFP
A 33-year-old person was gunned down in a drive-by shooting last Sunday as he rode a motorcycle to his home in Yala, one of three Muslim-majority provinces bordering Malaysia, police said.
In neighbouring Pattani province, a 46-year-old Buddhist man was also killed in a drive-by shooting last Sunday.
Meanwhile, two Buddhist couples were shot after insurgents opened fire on a home in Songkhla province, near Yala.
Three people were killed, and the fourth was seriously injured, police said.
Despite peace-building initiatives by Thailand's government, installed after a coup four months ago, violence in the three southernmost provinces of Yala, Pattani and Narathiwat has spiralled in recent months.
More than 1,800 people have been killed in three years of unrest in this region, which was an autonomous Malay sultanate until Thailand annexed it more than a century ago.
The ethnic violence sees no signs of abating.
Since last few months there has been a spate of killings and increase in mindless violence. A tense situation prevails in the Thailand's southern region.
People are too scared to venture out as dusk falls. There seems to be no semblance of law and order in the region.
The countries political leader had visited the violence-hit regions and appealed to the rebels to shun violence.
AFP
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