Up
until now, the situation in southern Thailand is of much interest to
all involved, whether it be the government security sector, the Southern
Border Province Administration Center (SBPAC) and the general public,
both in the area and outside. And, certainly, the movement would
follow up closely on the situation, too. This is an important pivot
point of the situation, whether for the better or worse.
On the better side, we see a cooperation between the operational core leaders of the movement and
the government security sector, even though a cooperative resolution is
not certain of, yet. However, it is believable that the violence will
lessen, although other insurgency groups may not agree with this
cooperation and may continue their operations against officials and the
innocent people. At the very least, operations by "Jeh Ali" or Waeali
Copter Waji's group in its area of responsibility will lessen. However,
the situation may worsen due to those leaders high up in the
policy-making level may disagree and may order other groups to
accelerate violence to demonstrate that they still have the potential.
This is a matter of concern.
However, the decision made by "Jeh Ali" and the 93 members has certainly resulted in significantly troubling the propaganda machine of the movement. Twisted information has
been quickly transmitted through various media, especially through web
sites and the social media, including the "ambranews.com" web site. This
site is owned by a treacherous Thai person, renting a server in
Malaysia, and specifically spreading information against the Thai
security sector and government. All the while the Malaysian side is
keeping a blind eye. The twisted information has repainted "Jeh Ali" and
his other comrades who reported themselves in, calling them rubber
plantation workers. While, in reality, "Jeh Ali" was a commanding leader
in Narathiwat Province, a criminal against national security, a co-planner in the arms heist at the 4th Development Battalion in Narathiwat on January 4, 2004 which resulted in the deaths of four military officials. The information has twisted the once brothers-in-arms to adversaries.
The
web site has further cooked-up information that the 93 persons who
reported in for the benefit of peace have been paid by the security
sector to start a drama. This clearly demonstrates the deceptive
ideology of the movement,
insincere towards anyone, even going against those who have shared the
same ideals, for fear that they might lose their hold on the masses.
This
is the struggle by the separatists in trying to gain the masses. For it
is clear that whoever loses the hold on the masses in the region,
defeat would be near.
The PULO has also joined in, as usual. This "money-hungry, paper tiger"
group collectively posts the operations of other groups on their web
site and twists the information for their own benefits. This allows them
to shamelessly gain funds from abroad.
The humor lies in the fact that the PULO had nothing to do with the 93 defectors and yet made their appearance.
The actual reason for the 93 defectors of its core leaders and united front members
reporting in was a result of networking that led to a discussion
between the security sector and members of the network, who mainly are
local politicians, religious leaders, owners of religious-schools, past
members of Ramkhamhaeng PNYS and past Indonesia-educated students, who
are against violence and want to bring peace to their homeland. This
opens up the opportunity for the pro-violence fighters to turn towards
peaceful means through a middle-link cooperation. As a result, a
political party named Party Kita was established, proclaiming "Melayu
Party for the people of Melayu". The party leader was Mukhtar Kila.
However,
such move resulted in a split amongst the movement's public affairs
people, especially the pro-violence group. This group uses violence to
gain funds from other Muslim nations, claiming to fight for their
ideals, which, in reality, these funds were distributed amongst the
members for their personal gains. As a result, Mukhtar Kila was killed
on December 15, 2011. The killing was staged as though it was to be the
work of government officials. Luckily the hitman was killed by the
village security team and it was found that he was from Tanyong Limo
village, Chalerm sub-district, Ra-ngae district, Narathiwat Province,
the same village that assaulted the teacher Juling Pongkanmun to death.
As a result, the evil plan of putting the blame on the nation's security
sector was foiled.
Although
Mukhtar was killed, the members of the peaceful ideals pushed on and
have thus made contact with the group leaders to report themselves to
the government, in order to proceed with peaceful means. This has eventually resulted in the defection of these 93 people.
The reporting-in of the core leaders and united front members
is considered a success of the Thai government in striving to fight
peacefully. Moreover, this defection has caused a big quake in the whole
insurgency operations, all the way from leaders/united front body
and personnel/organization, domestically and internationally. This also
shook the underground businesses that supported violence, which,
together, benefited mutually. Also affected are some local NGO's which
supported the dark movements in the southern provinces.
The resolution of the reporting-in of the movement’s core leaders and its united front members on the 11th day of the 9th month, which was comparatively referred to as 911 by the 4th Army Area Commander, is still difficult to fathom. Yet, this is a good starting point for the people of the three southernmost border
provinces who can now begin to see a glimpse of peace at the end of the
tunnel, instead of the darkness under the tyranny and fear of the
insurgents. Isn't it?
I'm here with you.
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