No more blacklist: Surayud
Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont said the government has instructed the government agencies to do away with the compilation of "blacklist" of suspected trouble makers in the deep South.
"Regarding the blacklist, I have asked the authorities to tear it up and burn them," Surayud told a pack crowd at the Yala's Thammawithya Foundation School, whose principle Sapaeing Baso is on the run from the police who accused him of being one of the mastermind behind the violence in the region. Surayud is currently on a oneday trip, his second to the the restive region where more than 1,800 people have been killed since January 2004. He made his first trip to the region last week when he publicly apologised for the Tak Bai massacre and the harsh measures of the previous government. The cancellation of the blacklist, as well as the public apology, was deemed as gesture of goodwill to the region. But in spite of these gestures, insurgent violence continue unabated. The Nation Yala
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