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BRN claims responsibility for recent bombings, including Mother’s Day attack
Submitted by editor2 on Wed, 07/09/2016
In an unusual move, an insurgent militant affiliated with the largest Deep South insurgent group has claimed responsibility for both a recent attack on a school in Narathiwat and the Mother’s Day attack.
A member of the Barisan Revolusi Nasional (BRN), the largest armed insurgent group operating in the restive Deep South, claimed that his militant unit was responsible for carrying out a recent attack in Narathiwat province on Tuesday, 6 September 2016, that killed three people, including a 4-year-old girl, the Benar News reported....(read more)... http://prachatai.org/english/node/6544
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Thai food, made bland
Published: 07/09/2016
Writer: Editorial
We'll have no more of this creative tom yam talay if the government forces through its plan to dumb down Thai food so...(read more)....
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Thai Media Magnate Pays the Price for Backing Wrong Royalist Faction
Posted on September 7, 2016 By Our Correspondent
Media Magnate Pays the Price for Backing Wrong Royalist Faction
The jailing for 20 years of media magnate and one-time Royalist Yellow Shirt leader Sondhi Limthongkul says less about his offense – creating a fraudulent report to support a loan transaction on a linked company – than it does on Thailand’s legal system.
Sondhi, once a fervent supporter of the royalist faction aligned with the now-nearly comatose Queen Sirikit, was the leader of the People’s Alliance for Democracy, which in 2008 and 2009 staged months of violent protest aimed at bringing down a surrogate government aligned with self-exiled former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. He led thousands of protesters to shut down all three of Bangkok’s airports and to occupy the country’s parliament building.... (read more).... http://www.asiasentinel.com/politics...get&height=407
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MIRACLES IN THE MILITARY’S THAILAND
September 7, 2016
PPT doesn’t believe in miracles. In Thailand, however, a series of “miracles” have occurred. More precisely, they seem to to have been manufactured under the auspices of the military dictatorship.... (read more)... https://politicalprisonersofthailand...arys-thailand/
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Thailand's Deepening Fractures
Thailand faces two legitimacy crises at its peripheries — and the junta is only making them worse.
By James Buchanan
September 08, 2016
Thailand’s junta must have been pleased when the results of a referendum on its much criticized draft constitution were announced this August. The new charter — written by a handpicked committee and promoted by the military — passed the vote comfortably. The win has allowed the junta to claim a degree of legitimacy and push ahead with restructuring the political system to weaken elected politicians at the expense of the military and other unelected institutions. When he seized power more than two years ago, General Prayut Chan-o-cha could hardly have hoped for things to be going so smoothly.... (read more)... http://thediplomat.com/2016/09/thail...ing-fractures/
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DSI says no CCTV footage about Tawatchai’s death because of faulty server
The Nation September 9, 2016
THE DEPARTMENT of Special Investigation (DSI) has admitted that it has no CCTV footage of the events surrounding the suspicious death of Tawatchai Anukul in a police cell because it claimed the system’s server is faulty.... (read more)...http://www.nationmultimedia.com/brea...-30294958.html
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HUNDREDS JOIN COLORFUL RALLY FOR KING ON AUSPICIOUS 9/9
By Teeranai Charuvastra, Staff Reporter - September 9, 2016
KHON KAEN — Hundreds of people turned out for a mass performance in honor of His Majesty the King in Khon Kaen province on Friday, which marked the ninth day of the year’s ninth month, a date considered auspicious by many Thais.
Meant as a gesture of loyalty to King Bhumibol, the ninth monarch of his line whose health condition... (read more).... http://www.khaosodenglish.com/politi...auspicious-99/
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Fri Sep 9, 2016
Thailand names new army chief from outside dominant faction
Reuters
Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej on Friday endorsed a new army chief in an annual reshuffle, an appointment from outside the faction that has dominated the army for several years, surprising some experts.... (read more)... http://www.reuters.com/article/us-th...-idUSKCN11F1VR
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Thai Junta Increases Military Budget, While Reducing Funding for Education and InfrastructureSeptember 9, 2016 Editor News Asia
It is the third straight year of increases in state spending for defence since the coup.
BANGKOK – Thailand’s Military junta-appointed leaders yesterday signed off on a nearly US$124 million budget hike for defence spending, while funds for education and infrastructure were pared back.... (read more)... http://www.chiangraitimes.com/thai-j..._switcher=true
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Referendum, Bombings and Peace Process
Submitted by editor2 on Sun, 11/09/2016
Hara Shintaro
With the north and Isan (northeast), the three southernmost provinces (Pattani, Yala and Narathiwat) are where the majority of the people rejected the draft constitution in the referendum held on 7 August 2016. It also must be noted that in 5 districts in the region, a majority of voters failed to cast a ballot (Khok Pho District in Pattani, Mueang and Betong districts in Yala, and Su-ngai Kolok and Sukhirin districts in Narathiwat).... (read more)... http://prachatai.org/english/node/6550