{"id":2001,"date":"2012-01-31T15:12:07","date_gmt":"2012-01-31T15:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=2001"},"modified":"2012-01-31T15:12:07","modified_gmt":"2012-01-31T15:12:07","slug":"thai-army-apologises-for-killing-muslim-civilians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2012\/01\/31\/2001\/","title":{"rendered":"Thai army apologises for killing Muslim civilians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/stories\/news1\/patani-muslim.jpg\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" \/>Thailand&#8217;s military admitted on Tuesday that four Muslim people killed by army rangers this week as civilians had no connection to an armed movement in the Muslim region.  <!--more-->  <br \/>The killings prompted an outpouring of anger by rights groups and southern Muslims.<br \/>Since being deployed to the region in early 2004, Thai security forces have been accused of a litany of abuses, including torture, arbitrary arrests, rape and murder.<br \/>Army commander-in-chief Prayuth Chan-ocha apologised to the families of the victims killed in Pattani on Sunday night and said the rangers were under pressure to respond after insurgents attacked a nearby military base with assault rifles and grenades.<br \/>Local villagers are angered by what they say is a lack of any real justice for Muslims, with the authorities reluctant to prosecute rogue police, soldiers and armed guards believed to have carried out extrajudicial killings.<br \/>An army spokesman said on Monday the four men, who were in the back of a pickup truck in which a rifle was found, were killed after &#8220;gunmen&#8221; opened fire on troops who attempted to approach the vehicle to carry out an inspection.<br \/>Deputy Prime Minister Yuthasak Sasiprapha, a retired army general, said further investigation was needed to determine whether the rangers should take the blame.<br \/>&#8220;If our officers were in fact guilty, they will have to face up to these charges and apologise,&#8221; Yuthasak told reporters, adding that compensation and justice would be given to the families of the victims.<br \/>Yala, Narathiwat and Pattani provinces were once an independent Muslim sultanate known as Patani until occupied by predominantly Buddhist Thailand.<br \/>Local Muslims oppose emergency rule Thai government extended repeatedly and the presence of thousands of soldiers deployed including Thais armed by the state.<br \/>Human rights groups have previously accused Thai authorities of major abuses in the south, including the use of unnecessary force in the 2004 siege of a mosque in which 32 suspected insurgents were killed.<br \/><em><br \/>Source: World Bulletin<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thailand&#8217;s military admitted on Tuesday that four Muslim people killed by army rangers this week as civilians had no connection to an armed movement in the Muslim region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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