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20 years after Tak Bai mass suffocation in southern Thailand, cyclists pedal 'for oxygen'
Abdullah Benjakat, Published on 23/10/2024
» Cyclists on Wednesday pedalled “for oxygen” on the same route where about 80 arrested protesters from Tak Bai district of Narathiwat suffocated on military trucks in 2004 as the government avoided questions if it can extend the statute of limitations of the Tak Bai massacre case.
Car bomb by police flats 'undermines peace talks'
News, Abdullah Benjakat, Published on 03/07/2024
» An academic in Yala has criticised what he says is sluggish progress in the peace talks in the deep South following a car bomb outside police flats in this southern border province on June 30.
Prachachat looking to expunge erroneous criminal records
Abdullah Benjakat, Published on 16/10/2023
» The Prachachat Party is seeking to expunge "erroneous criminal records" affecting some groups of people, especially those in the deep South.
Army eyes backup plan for security
News, Abdullah Benjakat, Published on 10/10/2023
» The Fourth Army Region is preparing measures to maintain security in the South as the government considers scrapping an emergency decree that has placed restrictions in three provinces, according to region chief Lt Gen Santi Sakuntanak.
Civic support grows for Songkhla student activist
News, Abdullah Benjakat, Published on 06/01/2022
» A human rights group from Narathiwat's Tak Bai district has offered moral support to a young activist in Songkhla's Chana district who was charged by Pathumwan police with defying the emergency decree.
New lease on life for emergency decree
News, Abdullah Benjakat, Published on 05/03/2021
» The government committee handling the emergency situation in the far South on Thursday decided to renew the invocation of the emergency decree in the violence-plagued region, except for six districts in Yala, Pattani and Narathiwat where the special law will no longer be needed.
Decree may end in four districts
News, Abdullah Benjakat, Published on 10/08/2020
» The 4th Army is mulling asking the cabinet to lift the emergency decree in four more districts of Yala, Pattani and Narathiwat, with Mai Kaen district of Pattani being likely to be the first to see the decree revoked.
Emergency decree could be lifted in four southern districts
Abdullah Benjakat, Published on 09/08/2020
» The 4th Army plans to seek approval for the executive decree for administration in emergency situations to be lifted in four southern districts, an army spokesman said.
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.
Southern MPs seek review of security laws
News, Abdullah Benjakat, Published on 25/07/2019
» Southern MPs are pressing the government to review the enforcement of two laws, which they say have fostered unrest in the far South.