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Wed, 02/16/2011 - 13:44
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Fatalities in Thailand's far South reach 4,200 in seven years
BANGKOK, Feb 16 (TNA) - Thailand's Southern Border Provinces Police Operation Center reported on Wednesday (Feb 16) that there had been over 7,000 violent incidents in the country's troubled far South over the past seven years, killing 4,200 people and injuring over 7,700 others.
The center located in Muang District of Yala Province said that from 2004 to February 15, 2011, there had been 7,499 violent cases in Thailand's southern border region, or 2.8 incidents a day on average. The violent incidents peaked at 2,475 in 2007 although violent cases in the Thai southernmost region averaged at 1,300 annually.
From January to February this year, there had been 77 violent incidents in the Thai deep South, or 1.9 cases a day on average, showing escalated violence when compared to what happened during the corresponding period of last year.
From 2004 to February 2011, Thailand's southernmost violence had injured 7,773 people, 5,212 of them were civilians and the rest were state security officers. Of the 4,200 killed people, 3,643 were civilians.
According to the official report, some 111 Thai teachers were killed and 103 others were wounded over the past seven years. Thirty-one suspected insurgents were also injured and 215 others were killed.
Meanwhile, violent unrest has continued in the deep South, as a group of Thai paramilitary rangers on foot patrol was attacked by a bomb at a three-way junction in Raman District of Yala Province Wednesday morning. The explosion injured one ranger. Security authorities later arrested a teenage male motorcyclist who is a suspect and brought him to interrogation.
Regarding an official investigation into a car bomb explosion in the heart of Yala on February 13, some 60 soldiers and police launched a new search on suspected houses for over two hours late last night, but no suspects were found. The state security officers assumed that suspected insurgents of the case had already fled out of the area. (TNA)
The center located in Muang District of Yala Province said that from 2004 to February 15, 2011, there had been 7,499 violent cases in Thailand's southern border region, or 2.8 incidents a day on average. The violent incidents peaked at 2,475 in 2007 although violent cases in the Thai southernmost region averaged at 1,300 annually.
From January to February this year, there had been 77 violent incidents in the Thai deep South, or 1.9 cases a day on average, showing escalated violence when compared to what happened during the corresponding period of last year.
From 2004 to February 2011, Thailand's southernmost violence had injured 7,773 people, 5,212 of them were civilians and the rest were state security officers. Of the 4,200 killed people, 3,643 were civilians.
According to the official report, some 111 Thai teachers were killed and 103 others were wounded over the past seven years. Thirty-one suspected insurgents were also injured and 215 others were killed.
Meanwhile, violent unrest has continued in the deep South, as a group of Thai paramilitary rangers on foot patrol was attacked by a bomb at a three-way junction in Raman District of Yala Province Wednesday morning. The explosion injured one ranger. Security authorities later arrested a teenage male motorcyclist who is a suspect and brought him to interrogation.
Regarding an official investigation into a car bomb explosion in the heart of Yala on February 13, some 60 soldiers and police launched a new search on suspected houses for over two hours late last night, but no suspects were found. The state security officers assumed that suspected insurgents of the case had already fled out of the area. (TNA)
