Date: May 26th, 2010
Method: Motorcycle Bombs
Location: Yala, Thailand
Death Toll: 2
Injury Toll: 55+
Perpetrators: Unconfirmed (accused Islamic Insurgents)
Channel News Asia explains:
The rebellion across the southern provinces by a shadowy band of separatist Islamists fighting for greater autonomy in the area bordering Malaysia has left more than 4,100 people dead.
There have been fewer attacks recently in the south because insurgents knew their cause had been overshadowed by two months of deadly anti-government protests in Bangkok, said analyst Srisompob Jitpiromya at Deep South Watch.
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The region was an autonomous Malay Muslim sultanate until it was annexed in 1902 by mainly Buddhist Thailand and tensions have bubbled there ever since, escalating into the current insurgency in January 2004.
Successive governments have struggled to contain the unrest in the southern provinces, where emergency rule has been imposed for nearly five years.
Rights groups have however blamed the continued state of emergency for encouraging a culture of impunity for alleged rights abuses by the security forces.
Date: April 22nd, 2010
Method: 3-5 M-79 Grenades
Location: Bangkok, Thailand
Death Toll: 1
Injury Toll: 75
Perpetrators: Suspected Red Shirts
Wire Update reports:
Confrontations between law enforcement and Red Shirt protestors peaked, as the protestors have been demanding the resignations of Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, who called an emergency meeting with security officials following the explosions.
The New York Times reports:
The explosions, several of which took place on the platform of an elevated train, scattered shrapnel through crowds that included foreign tourists, sending people fleeing in panic into shops and restaurants.
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It was the worst violence since April 10, when 25 people were killed in a clash between the military and the red shirts, and it raised fears that confrontations between rival groups of protesters could spread.
Tensions have increased in recent days, with the red shirts threatening to march on the financial district and the government warning of an imminent crackdown. “Your days are numbered,” an army spokesman, Col. Sansern Kaewkamnerd, said Thursday, addressing the red shirts.
The casualties came in an area patrolled by the military where pro-government demonstrators have gathered recently, shouting insults at the anti-government red shirts, who have massed behind a barricade of concrete blocks, stacked tires and sharpened bamboo poles.
Date: April 21, 2010
Method: Twin Bombing; 1st M-67 Grenade 2nd Car Bomb
Location: Police Station in Pattani, Thailand
Death Toll: 1
Injury Toll: 53
Perpetrators: Unconfirmed
The Bangkok Post reports:
One of two men riding a motorcycle threw the hand grenade over the station fence, according to witnesses. It landed next to the flagpole, then exploded.
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About two hours after the attack, a bomb hidden inside a car parked about 20 metres from the police station exploded, injuring at least 10 people, police said.
The explosion occurred about 10am as the commissioner of the Southern Border Province Bureau, Pol Lt Gen Peera Poompichet, visited the station for a briefing on the attack.
Date: April 7th, 2010
Method: Bomb
Location: Yala's Than To District, Thailand
Death Toll: 0
Injury Toll: 7
Perpetrators: Unconfirmed
Only
The Nation and
Bangkok Post have reported on this attack.
The Bangkok Post reports:
District police said insurgents buried a homemade-bomb thought to weigh between three and five kilogrammes under a tree near the site and triggered it by mobile phone when the officers arrived.
Monday, June 21, 2010
8:20 PM
Claire Morcos
