More Arms Found As Junta Readies Crackdown

[Flashermac]

Now that the junta is getting ready to kick off a serious crackdown on war-grade weapons as the grace period it set ended yesterday, several caches of arms have been found abandoned in several locations across the country.

 

In Nonthaburi's Bang Bua Thong district, a large hoard of weapons was found discarded alongside a main road near a housing complex. The cache included two assault rifles, a submachine-gun, a large number of ammunition rounds, four M79 grenade rounds, four smoke grenades and four fire bombs.

 

In Chiang Mai, a stash of munitions and explosives was found abandoned at the home of a former Army officer. The items included nine anti-personnel mines, four TNT explosive bars and a few ammunition rounds. Army explosives personnel said the mines and the TNT remained active despite being of advanced age.

 

A large hoard of weapons was also found abandoned recently in Chon Buri. It included four handguns, an AK-47 assault rifle and a large amount of ammunition.

 

Senior commander Pol Maj-General Sanit Mahathaworn said at a press conference yesterday that these weapons had not been prepared to instigate politically motivated violence. The military and the police have also been active in taking down criminals and drug traffickers who use weapons, in addition to conducting raids and making arrests in pre-crackdown campaigns.

 

Acting National Police chief Pol General Watcharapol Prasarnrajkit said all the weapons would be inspected to see if they had been used previously, and they might later be demolished.

 

He added that the police would also kick off their own crackdown from today, with a special focus on narcotics and vice.

 

In Surat Thani, the military, police and provincial civilian authorities held a press conference yesterday to instruct all 1,035 kamnan and village heads to continue reconciliatory campaigns in cooperation with more than 200 government agencies and local administrative bodies.

 

The provincial military chief, Maj-General Ranchat Jinda-ngern, encouraged people possessing war weapons to continue dumping them and warned that those who refuse to give up their weapons would end up in military court.

 

 

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/politics/More-arms-found-as-junta-readies-crackdown-30235959.html

[Specialist]

The deadline was in fact extended today, to the 25th.

 

I would be tempted to speculate that the government extended the deadline to encourage the bad boys to continue discarding their toys and phoning in their dumping locations, while they can still get a free pass for them. Once the sanctions kick in (which would have been today), the price of getting caught with those toys gets a LOT higher.

[Guest]

More arms found

[cavanami]

How many years (decades) has the Army been in the south of LOS and found squat??? now they find weapons like popcorn ...just saying...