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Re: Protests update
Nidhi Eoseewong: Implications of draft charter referendum, its results
Submitted by editor2 on Sat, 13/08/2016
In an interview with Prachatai following the constitutional referendum, Nidhi Eoseewong maintained that the results were due to the lack of free and open debate and criticism. Many people consequently made what seemed the easy choice giving the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) a sort of split legitimacy: While Thais may accept the results, it will be difficult to claim legitimacy with the international community where the process has been seen as unjust from the start. Despite the referendum result, he holds out hope for democracy future.... (read more)... http://prachatai.org/english/node/6469
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REDSHIRTS REJECT LINK TO BOMBINGS, HIT BACK AT PRAYUTH
By Pravit Rojanaphruk, Senior Staff Writer - August 13, 2016
BANGKOK — Leaders of the anti-regime Redshirt movement Saturday flatly denied having anything to do with a series of bombs that killed four people and injured 35 in the west and south of Thailand and lashed out at the junta leader for making a “cheap” bid to frame them.... (read more).... http://www.khaosodenglish.com/politi...-back-prayuth/
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Andrew MacGregor Marshall
Journalist and author. Lecturer at Edinburgh Napier University.
Coupmakers’ haunted dreams
Can the striking parallels between the 2016 Mothers’ Day attacks in Thailand and the 2007 New Year bombings help us figure out who was responsible?.... (read more)....
https://medium.com/@zenjournalist
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MOTHER’S DAY BOMBINGS: ARREST ON OIL RIG, UNKNOWN NUMBER DETAINED BY JUNTA
By Pravit Rojanaphruk, Senior Staff Writer - August 14, 2016
BANGKOK — Police announced Sunday morning they have made an arrest in connection with a wave of bombing and arson attacks in seven provinces that left four dead.
On Saturday, officers went to an offshore oil rig in the Gulf of Thailand where they arrested Sakarin Karuehat with a court-approved warrant in connection with the a fire at a Tesco-Lotus in Nakhon Sri Thammarat province.... (read more)...
http://www.khaosodenglish.com/news/c...etained-junta/
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Thai blasts a wake up call for peace?
RUNGRAWEE CHALERMSRIPINYORAT, GUEST CONTRIBUTOR - 14 AUG, 2016
Coordinated bombings, Thailand’s southern conflict and a stalled peace process.
If the recent coordinated attacks in Thailand’s Upper South, which claimed four lives and injured 36, were carried out by southern militants, the next important question is to what extent it would affect the Thai state’s policies towards the ongoing violent resistance in Thailand’s Malay Muslim-majority southernmost region.... (read more).... http://www.newmandala.org/thai-blasts-wake-call-peace/
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OBSERVATIONS ON THE RECENT BOMBINGS
AUGUST 14, 2016
Giles Ji Ungpakorn
A recent article in New Mandala by Anders Engvall outlines a well-argued case for the Muslim Malay militants being behind the spate of bombing on the 11th and 12th August, giving a detailed account of other bombing incidents and also explaining why the Thai authorities would wish to play down the strength and ability of the insurgents. [ http://bit.ly/2bqoOk4 ]
This view is backed up by Anthony Davis, a writer for Jane’s Defence Weekly, who was interviewed by the BBC Thai service..... (read more).. https://uglytruththailand.wordpress....cent-bombings/
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Sun Aug 14, 2016
Thai police find more unexploded bombs following coordinated blasts
By Wirat Buranakanokthanasan and Pairat Temphairojana | BANGKOK
Thai police over the weekend found and defused five explosive devices that had failed to detonate when an as yet unidentified group carried out a series of deadly bomb attacks on popular tourist spots late last week.
Police said they had arrested one suspect following the bomb and arson attacks on Thursday and Friday that killed four people and wounded dozens more in some of Thailand's best-known southern resorts and islands.... (read more)... http://www.reuters.com/article/us-th...-idUSKCN10P078
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South insurgency linked to blasts Forensic work points to similar bombs
Published: 15/08/2016
Reporters Forensic evidence suggests the explosive devices used in multiple... (read more)...
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August 15, 2016
Thai military and insurgents change tack in southern provinces
DON PATHAN, Contributing writer
SI SAKHON, NARATHIWAT, Thailand -- Even as fingers are pointed at southern separatists as among possible suspects behind a string of bombing and arson attacks on Aug. 11 and 12 in southern Thailand, the Thai military is shifting strategy on countering the 12-year old insurgency. By October, the Thai army will reduce its presence in the historically contested southernmost provinces, in favor of outsourcing security responsibilities to volunteers and officials at the village level.... (read more)... http://asia.nikkei.com/Politics-Econ...n_cid=NARAN012
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Mother’s Day attackers likely to be junta’s political opponents: Junta security expert
Submitted by editor2 on Mon, 15/08/2016
A security expert for the Thai junta pointed out that the Mother’s Day attack was likely to be connected to the junta’s political opponents.
Panitan Wattanayagorn, advisor on security affairs to Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha, the junta leader and Prime Minister, told BBC Thai on Sunday, 14 August 2016, that the series of arson and bomb attacks in southern provinces of Thailand on 11-12 August 2016 were likely to be connected people who are negatively affected by the policies of the PM and political development.
He said that it was quite clear that the attack was politically motivated by certain groups of people especially “the old powerful groups,... (read more).... http://prachatai.org/english/node/6471