Cabinet appoint chief of revived centre to quel southern violence
The Cabinet approve Tuesday Nonthaburi Governor Pranai Suwannarat as chief of revived centre aimed at quelling violence in south.
Deputy Interior Minister Banyat Chansena said the Cabinet approved Pranai as the director of the centre that was abolised during Thaksin government. The centre, Southern Border Administration Centre, will be renamed to Southern Border Development Centre. "He is the right man who knows the problems and has experience in the region," Banyat said. Pranai is the younger brother of Palakorn, who headed the centre before it was dismantled by Thaksin's government. After Phalakorn was sacked, he was appointed to be a Privy Council member. The centre, initially formed in 1984, was credited with keeping Muslim separatist movements in the south under control and critics of Thaksin ascribed the violence which erupted in early 2004 as partly due to its abolition. The Nation
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