06.09.09 PM orders more closed-circuit surveillance cameras installed in troubled South
The recent upsurge of violence in Thailand’s troubled South has
prompted Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva to order officials posted in
the region to work harder and that more closed-circuit surveillance
cameras be installed.
Mr Abhisit told journalists Saturday that
he had received intelligence reports that insurgents operating in the
deep South planned to create more unrest in the deep South this month.
His
concerns were made after a border patrol policeman was killed early
Friday while another 15 residents and border police were wounded in a
car bombing in the restive southern province of Yala.
The
incident came one day after Thursday’s bombings in the nearby province
of Pattani in which a man was killed and 29 others wounded.
Touching
on a plan by anti-government protesters of the United Front for
Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) to hold a major rally on September
19 in Bangkok, Mr Abhisit said concerned security officials would
monitor the situation on a regular basis.
The prime minister
said that Deputy Prime Minister Suthep Thaugsuban, who oversees
security affairs, would be responsible in dealing with the situation if
he is out of the country.
Mr Abhisit was scheduled to attend the 64th United Nations General Assembly in New York which would be opened on September 15.
The UDD leaders have postponed their planned rally from Saturday to
September 19 which marks the third anniversary of the bloodless coup
which toppled then prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra. (TNA)
