Better Border Communications Needed

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Better border communications needed

(BangkokPost.com from reports)

Kuala Lumpur

A Thai-Malaysian military summit has called for new, better and faster cooperation to fight what the two defence ministers gingerly called "new challenges along the border."

The Malaysian press reported that talks between Defence Minister Najib Razak and Thai counterpart Boonrawd Somtas tiptoed around the sensitive issue of the violence in the Thai South.

new indeed .... there's plenty who have been aware for years

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Seven wounded in South bombing

(BangkokPost.com) - Insurgents exploded a bomb at a commercial shop in the municipality of Yala Friday morning, wounding two soldiers and five people, police said.

The bomb, hidden at by shop selling engine oil on Sirorod Street, was detonated at around 6.30am.

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2 soldiers, 6 civilians injured in Yala bomb attack

June 22, 2007 : Last updated 12:16 pm (Thai local time)

Yala - Insurgents detonated a bomb hidden in front a house in this southern border province, injuring two soldiers and six people.

The explosion occurred at 6:45 am on the Siroros Road in Yala's Muang district.

Police said the insurgents detonated the bomb with a remote control when the two soldiers were riding their motorcycle past the spot.

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3 soldiers injured in Narathiwat ambush

June 22, 2007 : Last updated 11:40 am (Thai local time)

Narathiwat - Three soldiers were injured when insurgents ambushed them with a bomb attack Friday morning in this southern border province.

The roadside bomb was detonated at 8:20 am on a road in Ban Kamphaeng Village in Tambon Kaluwornua in Muang district.

Police said the soldiers were returning to their base after have escorted students to a school.

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A bomb attack kills two and injures five others in Yala

June 22, 2007 : Last updated 09:56 pm (Thai local time)

A bomb explosion at a tea shop in Yala's Bannang Sata district killed two and injured five others.

Rescue workers rushed the wounded to a hospital nearby.

Police said that the bomb went off at about 8.30pm at a tea shop near Tai Muang village in Tambon Tanoh Puteh.

The bomb attack damaged part of the tea shop.

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NOT the same incident reported above .....................

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Three killed, at least 10 injured in tea shop attack in Yala

June 23, 2007 : Last updated 12:20 am (Thai local time)

Yala - Three people were killed and at least ten others injured when insurgents on a pick-up truck opened fire at a teashop in this southern border province Friday night.

An unknown number of assailants opened fire at the shop with assault rifles at about 9:10 pm.

Three were killed at the scene and the injured were rushed to the provincial hospital.

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Three killed, at least 10 injured in tea shop attack in Yala

June 23, 2007 : Last updated 12:20 am (Thai local time)

Yala - Three people were killed and at least ten others injured when insurgents on a pick-up truck opened fire at a teashop in this southern border province Friday night.

An unknown number of assailants opened fire at the shop with assault rifles at about 9:10 pm.

Three were killed at the scene and the injured were rushed to the provincial hospital.

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It really is terrible to read about this daily,

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Insurgents kill three 14-year-old boys

(BangkokPost.com) - Three people were killed and at least eight others injured when insurgents blasted a tea shop in Yala late Friday, police said Saturday.

Police said an unknown number of insurgents on a pick-up truck opened fire onto the shop in Bannang Sata district at about 9:10pm, using assault rifles. Three people, all of whom were 14-year-old boy, were killed on the spot.

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PM Surayud to visit Malaysia in August : Defence minister

Sat, June 23, 2007 : Last updated 20:59 pm (Thai local time)

Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont will visit Malaysia in August for talks with Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi on ways to end the insurgency in the deep South, Defence Minister General Boonrawd Somtas said Saturday.

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Meanwhile, Thai security forces rounded up about 100 suspects during a threeday sweep of Yala's Bannang Sata district, Army spokesman Colonel Akara Thiprote said Saturday.

The suspects will be questioned and released if found to be innocent.

In the continuing violence, three teenagers aged 14-15 were killed in a bomb attack on a tea shop in Yala's Bannang Sata district on Friday night. Several people were injured, most of them aged 15-16.

A 16-year-old girl was shot dead earlier in the day in Yala's Than To district. Suwanna Butrsungnern, from Chaiyaphum, was gunned down as she was about to enter her house.

Late on Friday militants set fire to five schools and a government office in Songkhla's Saba Yoi district.

Police said that the district's tambon administrative organisation office was burned to the ground, and a pickup truck parked nearby also set on fire.

Security guard Kasaman Kalemanan, 34, said seven men with M16 rifles surrounded the office and told him to leave before firing into the sky.

Kasaman said he ran away and the men then set fire to the building.

Also, a 38-year-old man, Supakkanit Chantarat, was shot dead while riding a motorcycle along the BoethongYabi road in Pattani's Nong Chik district at about 10.20am on Saturday.

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