Village protest over police unit
About 100 villagers, mostly women and children, yesterday demanded that police at the Border Patrol Police School in Tambon Patae in Yala’s Yaha district be pulled out over an alleged killing of a villager.
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Some 300 people - mostly women and children - blocked a road in southernmost Yala province yesterday and demanded that border patrol police leave their village.
Residents of Ban Mapae village in Yaha district's Tambon Patae blocked the road in the village at 11.30am to demand that police stationed at the local Border Patrol Police (BPP) School pull out. The villagers believe the BPP personnel killed a villager. Colonel Shinawatra Mandej, commander of the 1st Special Task Force, said the protest was set up by the separatist Barasi Revolusi Nasional (BRN) to create trouble in the restive region and that the authorities would not withdraw the police unit from the area. "The people have their right to protest in accordance with the constitution but there is no reason for the border police unit to pull out," he said. Officials at the police unit had nothing to do with the death of the local resident. The story was made up by separatists to spark an angry response from local people, he said. The protest eventually ended after negotiations. Villagers understood that the death the local resident recently was caused by militants, not officials, said Police Captain Dejrith Sathichot, chief of a special company of border patrol police.
The Nation Yala
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