The Sound from the South

It all started when I was not in this country...How it get sparked, who's the mastermind of all these evil events. It has been almost 7 years and not any authorities, any government, any administration got an answer for us. It is Amazing how almost 7 years gone by and nothing better.


SOE(State of Emergency) has been declared so long ago that we totally forget. PM Abhisit said at one point he doesn't want SOE imposed in Bangkok for too long until authority lean on it too much. How About our home in the South, have the authorities been leaning on SOE too much, too long? How much more innocent lives we have to lost? Latest event, drive-by shooting that killed a teacher couple, leave 3 offsprings behind. Has it wake any big guy up?


Here's the statistic number for teachers and students only since January 2004; 327 schools burnt down with 135 teachers killed, 122 teachers injured, 36 students killed and 158 students injured.


This is not include the lives of Soldiers, police officers and volunteers. The number believed to be around 4200 people killed so far, and that just as recorded.


This is what believed to be the starter:
January 4, 2004 under Thaksin's administration, 20 schools was burned down at the same time in Narathiwat province. The incident believed to be created to distract the arm robbery at Army camp. 400 rifles, 20 handguns and 2 machine guns were stolen with 4 soldiers killed.


March 12, 2004, Somchai Neelapaijit, the renown lawyer that chaired Muslim law association at that time was abducted and never been found...until today.


April with GrueSae case, 114 killed. October same year with TakBai case, another 82 lives lost. It's go on and on and on...


And it's not going to stop.


I ask the political analyst at my Channel, TAN network, Khun Paisal Sricharatchunya, why teachers, why monks. Who we think is behind these horrific incidents? What would come to sense at all, what is all these for?


Teachers and Monks are targeted because they are symbols of Buddhism in the communities. 
The mastermind behind all this believed to be the separatist group, the extremist that wants to separate 3 Southern provinces, that majority of population is Muslim, from the rest of the country. Most people believed these insurgents funded by Al-Qaeda, or Taliban, some international organization.


If you search in internet, they call it "War". Thai government is in war with various groups, PULO, BNP, Runda Kumpulan Kecil (RKK), Barisan Islam Pembebasan Patani(BIPP), Gorakan Mujahideen Islam Patani(GMIP), Jama ah Islamiya(JI) and probably etc.


Now you would want to know whether Thai citizens in those 3 provinces want to be separated from the rest of country. They don't and they live in fear. And they are not moving away, because it is there home town.


There is still news of Bomb and drive-by shooting to be heard almost every day. You would never get use to it, nobody would. And I hope the government wouldn't and come up with something, something that would really make it better, for the sake of our brothers and sisters in the south.


They had done nothing wrong and no one deserve this.

Focus Analysis on TAN network: The escalating violence in The South of Thailand
)it's over 18 minutes long, so I have to cut it in 2 parts)