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BANGKOK (DNSI)-The insurgency situation in southern Thailand seems to be increasing despite the Thai government's efforts to crush the guerrillas with a massive military effort. The rebel organization, named the National Liberation Front of the Pattani Republic, is composed of communists as well as Muslim separatists who want to be separated from Thailand...
According to Thai Deputy Interior Minister Thawil Sunthornsaratul, the nation is paying some $150,000,000 yearly in suppression efforts. The Royal Thai Army, Navy and police have been steadily increasing their activities in the southern provinces of Yala, Narathiwat and Pattani where the guerrillas control or contest much of the rural areas...
Meanwhile, the Thai Communist Suppression Operations Command (CSOC) has submitted a long-term suppression program for the south to the Thai National Security Council. Lt.-Gen. Saiyud Kerdpol, head of CSOC's coordinating center, explained that the increasing complexity of the southern guerrilla movement necessitated a two-pronged attack-one to immediately crush the rebels by military means and a second to "win the hearts and minds of the people...
...elected representatives of Pattani Province, where most of the guerrilla activity is taking place, called on the provincial administrators (composed almost exclusively of Thai Buddhists) to cooperate with them. Rep Vilai Banjalak stated that the elected representatives have close rapport with the people which causes suspicion among the local administrators. He said that when a representative recently bailed out a man from local police custody to helphis family with harvesting, the action was regarded by local officials as supporting banditry...
...returning to Vientiane after a week in the royal capital of Luang Prabang, even four years ago constantly threatened by Pathet Lao guerrillas. If I am anxious to get back to Vientiane, where the main amusement is Walt Disney movies dubbed in Thai, rest assured that Luang Prabang must have been dead. It is the rainy season. The only way to get to Vientiane, since there are no passable roads, is to fly-in a DC-3. The only way to get to the airport is to cross the river-on a ferry, since there are no bridges in Laos...