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Blame game resumes over unrest
News, Abdullah Benjakat, Published on 29/08/2022
» The recent bombing and arson attacks at 17 locations in Yala, Pattani and Narathiwat may have been motivated by the Thai peace negotiators' refusal to let leading figures in the Barisan Revolusi Nasional (BRN) separatist movement set foot in Thailand and meet residents, according to an analyst.
Ex-rebel negotiator in peace talks dies
News, Abdullah Benjakat, Published on 27/08/2020
» PATTANI: A key figure in the Pulo-DSPP, one of five organisations in the Mara Patani umbrella group of southern insurgents, who had a key role in peace talks with the government, has died in a Malaysian hospital.
Army rejects calls to lift far South emergency law
News, Abdullah Benjakat, Published on 08/11/2019
» Fourth Army chief Phonsak Phunsawat has insisted that special security laws in the restive South be maintained following this week's massacre of 15 people at a civil defence volunteer checkpoint in Yala's Muang district.
Claims of rights breach as authorities take baby's DNA
News, Abdullah Benjakat, Published on 23/11/2015
» Pattani: Security authorities have come under fire from a religious foundation for collecting a DNA sample from the five-month-old son of a suspected insurgent without the family's consent.