NEWS & ANALYSIS ON MAJOR INCIDENTS

- - Can the Canadian model offer a solution for southern Thailand?
- - Running out of ideas in the South
- Southern militants have scant desire to negotiate
- Thailand should just accept that South is different
- Malaysian PM's visit to show up lack of deep South action
- Najib may have some answers to deep South problems
- Still a long battle ahead in the quest for peace in the South
- Too many cooks spoiling the broth
- Seeing things from a different perspective
- Peace in the South demands historical recognition
- New ideas necessary to resolve deep South crisis
- Massacre probe must provide answers
- Money goes to waste in the deep South
- A long way to go before peace is possible in the South
- Patani Malay separatists at a crossroads
- Anupong's remarks may add fuel to the fire in the South
- Military alone cannot solve problems in the deep South
- Anupong's remarks may add fuel to the fire in the South
- Let's not allow mosque attack to derail peace bid
- South policy still lacks understanding
- Hard line lingers on the deep South
- Malays strive to keep alive the spirit of the kris
- Different approach needed in the deep South
- No one wants to live under colonial rule
- When will we really understand the South?
- Abhisit right to put the South on the agenda
- Can the Democrats stand up to the Army tactics in the South
- How long can we ignore the deep South?
- POLITICAL WILL LACKING TO DEAL WITH SOUTH PROBLEM
- No time for complacency in the South
- The South is a long way from Bangkok
- Unofficial talks may fan the flames of insurgency
- Is Chavalit fostering false hope in the deep South?
- Analysis :Ceasefire in south is just too good to be true
- Pornthip means well, but she misunderstands the south
- Army's abuses come home to roost in South
- Deep south insurgency puts strain on thai-malay relations
- In the South, the media, too, must think outside the box
- Lessons from the southern insurgency not learned
- Insurgents make it clear there is no neutral ground
- BANGKOKIAN: Odd silence on south
- Political rumblings in the deep South
- No progress in checking unrest
- Hope for the southern poor
- Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
- 'Pushing people towards the insurgents'
- Analysis :Premier has wasted opportunity in South
- Crisis in south rooted in ethnic Malay identity
- Bombs 'like those in Bangkok'
- Schools aim to rise from ashes
- Harsh realities mar peace efforts in South
- Scars of Krue Se bloodbath refuse to go away
- Off-the-wall comments, suggestions have not helped
- Anti-terror effort needs closer cooperation: Nitya
- Old separatists still dream of a free patani
- Mahathir: Talk with exiled South leaders
- Military to enforce ban on public gatherings
- Rewards dropped for the arrest of militants - South to get 3,000 more troops after violence escalates
- Pulo alleges targeted killings
- 'Talks vital to restore peace in the South'
- No end in sight to violence in south - PREMIER'S FIRST BORDER TOUR: Surayud apologises for govt's abuses in South
- Government reaches out to the South
- The long road to peace in the deep South
- Just a local affair or prelude to terrorism?
- Insurgency 'has crossed a new threshold'
- South an elusive 'spider's web' for generals
- Southeast Asia the second front of global terror?
- Sonthi makes a needed overture in the South
- Southern blasts clear way for army plans
- Soldier killed by bomb in Narathiwat
- Volunteer shot dead in South
- Force alone won't win battle with insurgents
- Six dead in series of bombings, shootings in Yala, Narathiwat
- South militants number 3,000
- Army chief 'welcome in restive South'
- Push for Sondhi to boost his role
- Bombs, bullets kill 3 on weekend
- Bombings spark a scramble for excuses
- Don't make us your scapegoat: Malaysia
- Lull ends in savage wave of 44 blasts
- Admin body urged for South
- What chance of reconciliation in the South?
- More arrests in teachers' assault case
- Troubled school gets 20 teachers
- Letter from KUCHING REUPAH
- South militancy has been years in making
- More held over brutal beating of 2 teachers
- Army 'must respond quicker'
- 3 arrests over hostage taking
- Hopelessly adrift in the stormy south
- HOSTAGE TAKING: Army's image takes beating
- Juling's vision of peace
- RESTIVE SOUTH: 100 schools to shut for a week





Bomb kills former insurgent and man shot dead in South

Published on January 21, 2006 - A bomb went off near a DTAC mobile-phone tower yesterday morning, killing a confessed former insurgent. Elsewhere another person died and two others were injured during the latest round of attacks in the Muslim-majority South. Manor Binyasing, 63, a cattle-herder and an erstwhile Muslim insurgent who turned himself in to authorities a decade ago, was killed as a five-kilogram bomb went off near a DTAC tower.

The explosion occurred just a day after some 200 suspected Muslim insurgents had set fire to more than 40 mobile-phone transmission stations and aerials across four provinces in the deep South.

Narathiwat Governor Pracha Therat theorised that the militant who detonated the bomb had been a foreigner who mistimed the explosion, killing Manor by mistake.

Pol Lieutenant Netiwut Deekaew added that the bomb had very likely been targeted at DTAC technicians who were due to repair an aerial damaged by an attack on Wednesday.

Investigators said the bomb had blasted a crater 50cm deep and scattered shrapnel in a 30m radius. Among the debris, police found the wreckage of a mobile phone and a Malaysian SIM card.

Security officials have been trying hard to foil insurgents in their tactic of setting off explosives by remote control using mobile phones. Mobile-phone users living in the three southernmost provinces are required to register their pre-paid SIM cards. Authorities are also seeking cooperation from their Malay-sian counterparts to block mobile signal transmission from across the border.

In Pattani, ICT Minister Sora-at Klinpratoom met mobile-phone representatives and civil servants yesterday to discuss the coordinated attacks on Thai mobile-phone networks last Wednesday.

Sora-at said that while the targeted networks continued to provide services in certain areas, they needed another two days to get their systems back in full working order again.

He recommended that mobile service-providers coordinate with tambon administrative organisations in installing surveillance cameras at transmission stations in case of future attacks.

Elsewhere, the unrelenting violence continued to take its toll, claiming another life and injuring two other people. In Pattani's Mai Kaen district, two suspected militants on a motorbike lobbed two grenades into a group of labourers.

Choo Promthep and Prasert Kongthong were injured in the attack and sent to a local hospital.

At the crime scene, investigating officials found leaflets that said: "You arrest innocents, and I will kill your people. One arrested, one killed."

In a separate incident, Supasin Woh, 46, was shot dead by unknown attackers while he was smoking outside his house in Sungai Padi district of Narathiwat early yesterday morning.

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