Blast fails to derail talks

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South bomb kills three but govt to press ahead

Published: 16 Mar 2013 at 00.00
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A bomb attack which killed three police officers in Narathiwat province's Rueso district yesterday will not derail the government's deep South peace talks push, Defence Minister Sukumpol Suwanatat says.

The government is blaming itself for what it says was a security lapse. However, it says the attack - which it believes is the work of insurgents trying to derail its peace talks effort - will not deter it from the plan.

The officers were travelling in a pickup truck in Ban Rueso when the bomb went off.

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Jules
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Discussion 9 : 16 Mar 2013 at 16.509
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Talks are cheap.. and that's only what they will do forever and ever... talk... to try to make TS look good.
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Discussion 8 : 16 Mar 2013 at 12.558
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So, K Pramote: '...the work of insurgents opposed to the peace talks...' you say, is that the new twist we're gonna get in official statements? IMO, the 'insurgents' (who said 'there is no terrorism in Thailand' again, Chalerm, or...?) just go on doing their thing, like before, undisturbed by so-called peace talks, with the irrelevant old men from BRN, invented by Thaksin for the sake of his new personal media profiling offensive!
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Discussion 7 : 16 Mar 2013 at 12.477
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The government are wasting time with peace talks. When will this sink into their skulls, The killing is still going on every day and getting more and more brutal. This is a problem that requires military intervention. Special forces need to be there ready to respond quickly and effectively. The government need to support the military. The sooner the better. Forget these silly peace talks they are not sincere at all. This is a joke.
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Bangon
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Discussion 6 : 16 Mar 2013 at 12.376
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waters: IMO you'd be quite right, when you'd write ACM Sukumpol further discredits his function of defense minister. What credit could be given to him as a person? What would he have become when he wouldn't be one of Thaksin's long time 'buddies', and servile followers? And how much time did he spend in the deep South? Surely more than Chalerm has (he was going to go immediately after the Bkk election, but...) though!
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Discussion 5 : 16 Mar 2013 at 12.255
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Every western child knows " You dont negotiate with terrorist ". It never worked.In Thailand, you deal with separatist, who demand something, the government will never agree to. Every educated Thai knows that. It is only a tool to blame the opposition for not joining, same as the amnesty bill.The BRN has no influence on those terrorists.
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Discussion 4 : 16 Mar 2013 at 10.274
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P.S. we in sweden have :north sweden, middle sweden, and south sweden
but they never say : the people from the deep south when they talk about
southswedish people.Please start the talk with them same as Thaipeople,
so they can feel as a THAI !!!!
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Discussion 3 : 16 Mar 2013 at 08.333
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In future years, other countries are going to use Thailand as an example why you do NOT openly negotiate with active terrorists.

Got what they want ? - no bombs this week. Upset them ? - the bombs come back. Blackmailers will always want more.
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Discussion 2 : 16 Mar 2013 at 08.172
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"It doesn't matter if they disagree with our approach. But they prefer not to be a part of it and criticise it instead," ACM Sukumpol said"

This inaccurate and highly political statement coming from the man who who applied more effort in trying to portray AV as a draft dodger than he has ever spent solving the Deep South problem should be taken at face value. ACM Sukumpol further discredits himself and the fugitive who appointed him.
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Discussion 1 : 16 Mar 2013 at 04.321
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The fact that blasts are going off during talks, would suggest that the group the government is meeting with is not representative of the militants.

This is the entire problem with negotiating with terrorists. Terror is a strategy not an entity. You can agree to whatever you want. You can spend billions. And at the end of the day you have no greater guarantee of security than you did beforehand.
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