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Friday, September 30, 2011

Amnesty condemns rebel Thailand

27 September 2011 booth 04: 40 GMT by Rachel Harvey BBC News, Bangkok Injured victims of a bomb blast in Thailand's southern Narathiwat province. Photo: September 2011 Amnesty says the southern insurgents target often teachers, civil servants and farmers Amnesty International has the insurgency in southern of Thailand intentionally on civilians accused.

The human rights group says the insurgents have always sought soft targets and that some of the attacks may constitute war crimes.

But it is also important to Bangkok's efforts to end the ongoing crisis.

More than 4,500 people have died since mainly Muslim ethnic Malay fighters in 2004 sparked their war against the Buddhist Thai State.

Questioning of witnesses and survivors of attacks Amnesty spent nine months as well as members of the Thai security forces.

His conclusion is that it mistakes on both sides.

But the report underlines the willingness of the insurgents in Thailand's four southernmost provinces to seek civilian targets - teachers, civil servants and farmers.

Amnesty demands the militant publicly commit to calls to stop such unlawful killings.

The rebels exist as a shadowy, distributed network with equally unclear goals, although many complaints are rooted minority status in their ethnic Malays.

Amnesty is also strongly criticised the Thai authorities, in particular the security forces, are, the serious human rights violations, including torture accused.

These violations were never properly investigated, is used the fuel pump you add impulse sense of injustice and the armed conflict.



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