General News - Monday December 17, 2007
Bangkok Post
THE SOUTH
Student shot dead, another one injured
ASSAWIN PAKKAWAN
Pattani _ A Muslim student was shot dead and another injured in a drive-by shooting in Yaring district yesterday. The two teenagers were shot by drive-by gunmen while riding a motorcycle to school.
Ma-useng Cho, 18, was shot in the head and body and later died at Pattani provincial hospital. Nusrudin Salae, 15, was shot in the right leg and was treated at the same hospital.
Both were students of Sasanupatham school, a private Islamic religious school in neighbouring Muang district.
Police said the friends were riding a motorcycle to school when assailants on another bike came alongside them.
They opened fire on them near Ban Tohsom in tambon Bangpu on Yaring-Pattani road. A spent bullet case was found at the scene.
Police are investigating whether the victims had any links to insurgents. Sometimes insurgent sympathisers killed each other to silence those who were planning to leave the movement.
Meanwhile, a committee working to find possible solutions to the southern violence has proposed 13 measures to end the long-standing conflict.
The committee was set up by the peace-building advisory council under the Southern Border Provinces Administration Centre (SBPAC).
The panel proposed that anti-insurgency agencies be consistent in their approach to tackling the southern problem.
Authorities should expedite the judicial process of cases involving the unfair treatment of local people by state authorities, the panel said.
Community and religious leaders along with residents should also be given more say on how best to tackle security problems.
In addition, the government should appoint former leaders of separatist movements as advisers to the SBPAC, the panel said.
Their experience would be useful for gaining insight into the ideas and plans of armed militant groups active in the region, the panel said.
Public relations campaigns in the region should also get a boost.
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