April 04, 2005
Four soldiers were injured Monday in a blast in Thailand's Muslim-dominated South, less than 24 hours after three bomb rocked the region, sources to Xinhua said.Update: Counterterrorism Blog has more.In Yala, one of the three southernmost border provinces in the kingdom, an explosion occurred at 1:30 p.m. Monday on a college campus where a football was held. Four soldiers were seriously injured in the blast.
The bomb, planted in the area where the military vehicles were parked, was triggered by remote control, said the source.
The foot match was organized by local authorities in a bid to develop good relations with Muslim residents in 75 villages of the province.
On Sunday night, three explosions went off in Hat Yai town of the southern Songkhla province, killing two people and injuring dozens.
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Yesterday's attacks were also the most sophisticated thus far - five separate bombs were planted and it seems the authorities only managed to stop two of the devices from exploding by shutting down the entire region's mobile phone network (the bomb's were all remotely detonated by cell phones). They also stand out because i.) it was the first time an Airport has been directly targeted & ii.) it was the first time Western foreigners were caught up in the violence (an American & a French citizen were both injured).
It'll be interesting to see how Shinawatra responds to this escalation - at the beginning of the year he had the army drop millions of 'peace doves' (oragami figures) as a goodwill gesture. Immediately before Sunday's attack he also expressed renewed interest in 'moderating' his approach to the rebels (he was accused of being heavyhanded after his army suffocated 87 detained civilians).
So... he's buggered if he strikes with an iron fist, and he's buggered if he adopts the softly-softly approach.
Doesn't look very good, does it?
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Hope they don't have the same traitors as we. I quess not. They would have hanged them long ago.
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