Chalerm to meet with Chularatchamontri

Deputy Prime Minister Chalerm Yoobamrung will meet Chularatchamontri Aziz Pitakkhumpol next month to discuss the violence in the southern region.

Chalerm said he would ask Aziz during their meeting scheduled for January 7 to record a speech in an attempt to help restore understanding and confidence among the ThaiMuslim communities in the south.

His request to meet Chularatchamontri, the spiritual leader of Muslims in Thailand, follows in an increase in violence in the three southernmost provinces over the past weeks, in which fatal attacks have claimed many lives of people, including teachers and civilians.

Schools in Pattani, Narathiwat and Yala were closed intermittently after teachers were brutally gunned down. Six people, including an 11monthold baby, were killed when insurgents opened fire on a crowded teashop in Pattani on December 11.

Chalerm said he assigned the governors of Songkhla, Yala, Narathiwat and Pattani to organise a meeting of Kamnans and village chiefs and asked for their cooperation in solving the problems.

The governors would be asked to collect data what they needed and did not need and convey this information to him so that he could forward it to Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra.

He would also ask Foreign Ministry to inform Muslim countries throughout the world about the brutal attacks by insurgents in Thailand, Chalerm said, adding he would travel to Malaysia and if possible, Indonesia, to discuss the southern problems. He declined to reveal details.

Meanwhile Lertkiat Wongpotiphan, deputy secretary general of the Southern Border Provinces Administrative Centre, met some 500 Thai Muslim local leaders who gathered to pray for peace at Tanyongmas Mosque in Narathiwat's Rangae district.

The leaders jointly declared their commitment to reject all unrest and violence, especially that claimed the lives of people, including a 11monthold child.

At the meeting, Col Chalermchai Sutthinuan, ranger commander of the 45 th unit announced that anyone who could provide any information about the teashop's attackers would receive a Bt100,000.

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