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Foreign Minister: Government confident unrest in South will end within three years
PATTANI, Feb 21 (TNA) -- The ongoing bloodshed in Thailand’s southern border provinces restive southern Thailand is caused by five factors and the government is confident that its efforts to end the problem could be achieved within three years, Foreign Affairs Minister Kasit Piromya said Sunday.
The Thai government is “sincere in resolving the [violence] problem in the deep South,” Mr Kasit said while accompanying envoys from 12 countries to visit academics, students and the private sector in the southern province of Pattani.
The envoys were in the province to listen to people’s plight in southern provinces.
To date, over 4,000 persons have died in the restive provinces of Yala, Pattani and Narathiwat since renewed violence erupted in January 2004.
Mr Kasit reportedly told the envoys that the five factors to which the violence is attributed are the ideology of some people to set up an autonomous state in the region, politics in the region, general crimes, personal conflicts and effects from the judicial system.
The government’s efforts to end the problem should be achieved within three years, he added.
Meanwhile, a local administration worker in Narathiwat’s Yi-ngo subdistrict narrowly escaped death early Sunday. The incident occurred while he rode a bicycle for exercise and an armed gunman in a pickup truck fired at least three shots from a shotgun at him.
The shots missed their target and the gunman drove away from the scene, police said. (TNA)
The Thai government is “sincere in resolving the [violence] problem in the deep South,” Mr Kasit said while accompanying envoys from 12 countries to visit academics, students and the private sector in the southern province of Pattani.
The envoys were in the province to listen to people’s plight in southern provinces.
To date, over 4,000 persons have died in the restive provinces of Yala, Pattani and Narathiwat since renewed violence erupted in January 2004.
Mr Kasit reportedly told the envoys that the five factors to which the violence is attributed are the ideology of some people to set up an autonomous state in the region, politics in the region, general crimes, personal conflicts and effects from the judicial system.
The government’s efforts to end the problem should be achieved within three years, he added.
Meanwhile, a local administration worker in Narathiwat’s Yi-ngo subdistrict narrowly escaped death early Sunday. The incident occurred while he rode a bicycle for exercise and an armed gunman in a pickup truck fired at least three shots from a shotgun at him.
The shots missed their target and the gunman drove away from the scene, police said. (TNA)
