Bangkok Crimes

The Bangkok Post
Warning on militant groups
SOUTHERN INSURGENTS, INTERNATIONAL TERRORISTS THOUGHT TO BE FORMING LINKS
JERUSALEM : Foreign security experts are warning Thai security authorities not to underestimate the link between insurgent groups in the deep South and international terrorist networks. [KC: There has been no solid evidence of any link between JI and Al Qaeda and [...]

KC: This Bangkok Post editorial is a response to a tumultuous week in the deep South defined by a militant attack on Thai-Muslim worshippers in a mosque in Narathiwat’s Cho Airong district. The attack killed 10 people. Reports and commentary on recent events can be found here, here and here via the Bangkok Post and [...]

Bangkok Post Editorial
The court decision on the Tak Bai incident shows that security forces truly need to reconsider their actions in the troubled area of the South. The wide attention given to the inquest proves that the southern violence is the nation’s most pressing security problem.
The hearings at the Songkhla Provincial Court revealed serious shortcomings [...]

The Nation
Thai court clears security officials of misconduct in Tak Bai massacre.
Songkhla - A Thai court on Friday ruled that there was no misconduct on the part of security officials who were involved in the Tak Bai incident five years ago that caused the death of 85 Thai muslims.
Bernama news agency said the two-member panel [...]

The Nation
Four warehouses in the city came under arson attack, damaging more than Bt100 million worth of property. The cost of other damage inflicted by a bomb attack in front of the Yala Rama Hotel, as well as the torching of auto showrooms and a pylon to relay mobile phone signals, has yet to be [...]

Court declares Muslim lawyer legally missing
Mr Somchai’s wife petitioned the court asking that her husband be declared missing so she could legally take control of his assets.
Mrs Angkhana, a human rights campaigner in Pattani, is convinced her husband was killed after being abducted by police on Ramkhamhaeng Road in Bangkok on March 12, 2004.
The law [...]