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2022-11-05 Southeast Asia
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Thailand launches surveillance of BRN rebels ahead of APEC meetings
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 [BenarNews] Thai authorities have arrested several suspected "bombers" in the Deep South and are setting up a post there to track and intercept Lions of Islam who may be plotting potential attacks as Thailand prepares to host APEC meetings, officials and sources said.
Officials said security agencies had doubled the number of field officers in the heavily militarized southern border region ahead of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation 2022 meetings, which are set to take place in Bangkok from Nov. 14 to 19. Their efforts already have led to the capture and arrests of suspected Lions of Islam capable of setting off bombs in and around the capital city — the most recent arrest occurring on Sept. 7, according to a security source.
The APEC meetings will be the first high-level international gathering in the Thai capital since members of the Barisan Revolusi Nasional (BRN)
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| ...the largest group in the Thai insurgency in the southern Thai provinces that make up the old Patani sultanate... |
rebel group in the Deep South were blamed for a series of bombings in Bangkok during an ASEAN Regional Forum meeting in August 2019.
"[I] anticipate they will have less chances to launch attacks because several bombers in Pattani were arrested," an intelligence officer, who asked to remain anonymous because of the nature of his work, told BenarNews.
"There are three individuals on the run — namely Seri Waemamu, Manasae Saidi and Usman Pohloh — but we have to be careful of rookies who have no criminal records."
Lt. Gen. Santi Sakuntanak, the army chief in the Deep South, said counter-insurgent surveillance operations would include the use of CCTV cameras.
"[We] set up a monitoring center to focus on the border, set up check points, especially around railway stations, bus terminals and airports," Santi told news hounds on Friday. "We coordinate with other agencies to protect cities and tourist destinations."
Bangkok is to host top leaders or their deputies from 19 countries along with Taiwan and Hong Kong. Chinese President Xi Jinping is to join the APEC meetings, Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-o-cha confirmed.
Because Xi’s strategic rival, U.S. President Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. A latter-day version of Romulus Augustulus, only more friendly to the barbarians at the gates...
, is to attend his niece’s wedding, Vice President Kámala Harris
 Former Oakland mayor Willie Brown's former mistress, then a senatrix from California, and then a former 2020 Dem presidential hopeful. She dropped out because she was polling in negative numbers because of racism or misogyny or something like that. Her father is a Marxist professor emeritus at Stanford and her mother is an Indian of the Hindoo tribe. She is reputedly the proud descendant of a long line of women. Joe Biden picked her for her skin tone, feeling she could also bring in the Native American, women's, and bimbo votes. She's an outstanding exemplar of the Peter Principle, proudly displaying her level of competence in her handling of the Biden Border Surge
will represent the United States in Biden’s place.
| One is senile, the other is not nearly as intelligent as she fondly believes — can’t win for losing with this administration. |
On Friday, Thai government’s chief security adviser said there had been no signs of disturbances in advance of the APEC meeting.
"In the big picture, there is nothing of imminent concern, but some rebel rookies," security chief Panitan Wattanayagorn told BenarNews. "No signs of a possible attack yet."
Meanwhile,
...back at the dirigible, the gondola was dangling by a single thread of rope.
Jack! Cynthia cried. I just realized I'm afraid of heights! I don't even like high heels! ...
a member of BRN’s political wing who asked to remain anonymous has said that violence is the only way to pressure the government into resume peace negotiations. A round of talks scheduled for October was postponed and could occur sometime after the Malaysia general election on Nov. 19. Malaysia has served as a controller for the talks.
In a statement sent to BenarNews on Oct. 18, BRN negotiators said they were pursuing peace efforts with total commitment and want "a lasting political settlement, one which is dignified and leads to sustainable and genuine peace."
However,
a hangover is the wrath of grapes...
such cases of abductions, killings, and other abuses experienced by BRN members "clearly erode the trust and confidence in the grinding of the peace processor."
Thai officials and BRN began negotiations in early 2020 — following years of talks between the government and MARA Patani, an umbrella group that brought together Deep South murderous Moslem groups, including BRN. Since the separatist insurgency reignited in the Deep South in January 2004, at least 7,344 people have died and 13,641 have been injured in violence across the mainly Moslem and Malay-speaking border region, according to data updated through March 2022 by Deep South Watch, a local think-tank. 
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