Tight security for South New Year

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Tight security for South New Year

Published: 22 Dec 2012 at 15.05
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Security officials in the southernmost provinces will be prohibited from taking leave during the New Year holiday period in case of possible attacks.

Soldiers stand watch as Muslim villagers hold national flags and banners during an anti-violence rally in Narathiwat on Saturday. (AFP Photo)

Authorities issued the directive amid reports of arson attacks that destroyed 26 closed-circuit television security cameras at three points in Pattani’s Saiburi district.

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buster
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Discussion 6 : 23 Dec 2012 at 03.306
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Who, as an insurgent, would approach cctv cams (recording) and destroy them?
Face first footage, unless ofcourse an inside informant passed on the dummy locations.

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a terrorist 2012 kills numbers, not individual elderly, kids, teachers, rubber tappers, on remote dirt roads, these are (intoxicated)serial killers
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Discussion 5 : 22 Dec 2012 at 23.285
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Several people have neen killed or injured and a building blown up plus 26 CCTV cameras destroyed while "security " was present this past week and " tightened up" so it doesn't matter whether "security " is there or not.
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Discussion 4 : 22 Dec 2012 at 22.154
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What is a puzzle to me is why after so many years of killing etc. the people in Bangkok dont get it that they are not capable to handle things like that. This cant be handled the usual Thai way of ignoring and hoping it will disappear. One of the major problems is that the people are not willing to get outside help, evidently they dont know but stubborn refusing any help from outside. I told here years ago they should get in touch with their Philippine counterparts who manged to handle the same problem in Mindanao. I told here several times they must get tough with the Malaysians, the problem are not the guys in KL the problem are the Islamis
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Discussion 3 : 22 Dec 2012 at 21.363
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Does anyone know any reason why CCTV cameras were be unmanned-this seems to be the case if they "discovered " 27 had been damaged and were not in fact watching in real time.

This seems to be another example of the incompetence of the team led by the man with the heavy heart.

Frankly ,what can be done to get this Government to do something concrete. Does anyone have any ideas.

I have a close friend with three toddlers down there. When asking what steps they take their answer was, they do not watch the news otherwise they could not cope. That's taking Buddhism to a new level.
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Discussion 2 : 22 Dec 2012 at 20.342
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It's time to put video cameras inside of mosques. When terrorist movements are religiously centered, it is absurd to allow secrecy within institutions that are ideologically aligned with the terrorists.
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Discussion 1 : 22 Dec 2012 at 15.371
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It is more like "more than 10,000 killed". BP has been using the 5,000 number for about 3 years now.

And, they are terrorists - not insurgents, not separatists.
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