Coss Posted January 28, 2011 Report Share Posted January 28, 2011 Government blasted for death toll in South Published: 28/01/2011 at 12:00 AM Newspaper section: News A lower house committee has accused the military of lax security measures that allowed the insurgent attack last week on an army outpost in Narathiwat. The chair of the committee on military affairs, opposition Puea Thai Party MP for Nakhon Ratchasima Somchai Phetprasert, yesterday said military operations were "a flop" as it had taken the insurgents only 20 minutes to attack unit Ror 15121 at the army outpost in Rangae district and make off with a large number of weapons. Four soldiers, including unit commander Capt Krit Khampirayan, were killed, 13 were wounded and assault rifles were stolen in the raid on the night of Jan 19. Democrat MP Chen Thaugsuban said military operations were squandering taxpayers' money if they failed to curb insurgent violence. The military must be prepared to accept being criticised as a huge sum of money had been injected into the effort in the lower South to tackle the unrest, he said. The lower house committee yesterday invited Internal Security Operations Command Region 4 deputy director Sakol Chuentrakul to explain last week's attack. Maj Gen Sakol said an investigation was under way to find out whether the assault had received the assistance of someone inside the base. He admitted there were flaws in guarding the outpost and these would be corrected. Puea Thai Party MP and red shirt leader Jatuporn Prompan yesterday raised a motion in parliament to question the government over its handling of the southern unrest. He asked why there had been no sign of abatement even though several government panels had been set up to resolve the problems. Mr Jatuporn blasted the government for failing to douse the southern fire, which has claimed more than 4,000 lives since violence flared anew in January 2004. Deputy Interior Minister Thaworn Senneam replied that it was not the Democrat-led government, but the Thaksin Shinawatra administration, which must be blamed for mishandling the unrest. Mr Thaworn said there had been about 900 unrest-related deaths during the term of the present government, compared to the rest under Thaksin-related administrations. A military source said security forces had detained 20 people suspected of being involved in the raid on the army outpost in Rangae district. They are being detained at Ingkhayutthaborihan military camp in Pattani for questioning. Another senior military officer said insurgents had used all means to weaken military operations in the region. The insurgents had asked local Muslim officials not to cooperate with government agencies. Five village defence volunteers were wounded in a bomb blast in Yala yesterday morning shortly after escorting teachers to school. The home-made bomb, weighing 3kg to 5kg, was put in a metal box attached to a roadside power pole on Thasap Road in Muang district. It went off at 8am as a pick-up truck carrying the five defence volunteers was passing by. Link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pasathai1 Posted January 28, 2011 Report Share Posted January 28, 2011 kun Somchai Phetprasert should go to Narathiwat and see if he can do better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted January 29, 2011 Report Share Posted January 29, 2011 Paper birds might work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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