|
2022-01-15 Southeast Asia
|
|
Malaysia Hands Over 3 Rebel Suspects to Thailand
|
[BenarNews] Malaysia handed three suspected gunnies to Thailand this week, as Thai and rebel negotiators
| ...that’s be the Barisan Revolusi Nasional (BRN), the largest group in the South Thailand jihad... |
wrapped up their first in-person peace talks in nearly two years, officials in Thailand’s troubled Deep South said Thursday.
The handover was the first official transfer in about 25 years of prisoners associated with the separatist insurgency in Thailand’s southern border region, a military source indicated. The Malay-speaking gunnies have long been known to seek haven across the border.
"Authorities took custody of three suspected gunnies handed over from Malaysia on Wednesday," Thailand’s Internal Security Operations Command (ISOC) said Thursday.
| The three are from the BRN’s fighting wing, dear Reader, in case you wondered. |
Continued from Page 1
"The gunnies escaped after committing crimes in the Deep South and went into hiding in Malaysia, but were captured by Malaysia’s 6th Infantry Division at illicit routes near Durian Burung, Kedah State, on Dec. 25, 2021," ISOC said in a statement.
The transfer at the Sadao border crossing in southern Songkhla province, on the Thai-Malaysia frontier, took place on day two of Malaysia-brokered talks between representatives of the Thai government and the Barisan Revolusi Nasional (BRN)
...the Salafi Barisan Revolusi Nasional-Koordinasi (BRN-C), the largest group in the south Thailand Islamist jihad. Trained in Bandung, Indonesia and retreating to safe havens in Malaysia, they’ve been causing trouble — mostly kabooms — for two decades as they work to make southern Thailand ungovernable... rebel group at a hotel near Kuala Lumpur.
The three suspects had criminal records, Thai authorities said, describing them as members of RKK (Runda Kumpulan Kecil), a combat unit of BRN. They have been taken to a regional police office for further investigation, officials said.
On Thursday, people on both sides of the border insisted that the handover was not related to the peace talks.
"This issue is not linked to last night's peace talks," said a Malaysian security source who spoke on condition of anonymity.
"We don’t have any indication if the handover of the three was linked to the peace talks, or that the trio was opposed to the talks," said Artef Sohko, president of The Patani, a civil society group based in Southern Thailand.
It is rare for Malaysia to extradite Deep South krazed killers, said a Thai military source who requested anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to news hounds.
The last time Malaysia handed over suspected gunnies — three key leaders of the PULO rebel group — was in 1997, according to the source.
The armed separatist movement against Buddhist-majority Thailand began in the 1960s. The movement’s primary demand has been independence for the people of Patani, the name given to the southern border region by BRN and other separatist groups.
Since the insurgency reignited in January 2004, more than 7,000 people have been killed and 13,500 injured in violence across the region, according to Deep South Watch, a local think-tank.
Abdulrahman claimed the violence had decreased since the BRN announced a unilateral ceasefire due to the COVID-19 pandemic in April 2020. The global outbreak of the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
 ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
disease forced peace talks that began in person in Kuala Lumpur to go online.
Despite Abdulrahman’s assertion, Thai security services in the Deep South have blamed BRN for carrying on with attacks in the region, including violent mostly peaceful incidents in the weeks leading up to the resumption of in-person peace talks. 
|
Posted by trailing wife 2022-01-15 00:00||
||
Front Page|| [11134 views ]
Top
|
|
14:06 swksvolFF
13:45 Lord Garth
13:33 trailing wife
13:32 Ebbuger Whuque4103
13:17 Frank G
13:01 SteveS
12:56 mossomo
12:55 mossomo
12:43 swksvolFF
12:41 mossomo
12:34 mossomo
12:25 Airandee
12:13 swksvolFF
12:02 Regular joe
11:54 Regular joe
11:51 Regular joe
11:51 Abu Uluque
11:21 SteveS
11:12 Jack Fleling2104
10:52 Nero
10:44 Procopius2k
10:44 Grom the Affective
10:40 Procopius2k
10:39 Procopius2k
|
