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2.1 Thailand: Southern Insurgents Should Stop Attacking Civilians.
Thailand: Insurgents Target Teachers in South
2.2 Insurgents use terror to drive Buddhist Thais out of the southern provinces and keep local Muslims under their control.
2.3 On October 1, 2012, separatist insurgents shot dead a teacher,
Komsan Chomyong from Ban Bor Ngor elementary school who was traveling through an insurgent moving area in Ra Ngae district, Narathiwat province.
2.4 Komsan Chomyong was the 152th teacher killed by separatist groups in the past eight years.
2.5 On September 24, alleged insurgents detonated a bomb at the entrance of Batu Mitrapap 66 school in Bacho district of Narathiwat, where a meeting of school directors was being held, wounding directors Kordir Laemaenae and Ma Durama.
2.6 The separatist insurgents in southern Thailand have renewed their attacks on teachers and government schools, which they view as symbols of the Thai Buddhist state,
2.7 Insurgents have reportedly torched more than 300 government-run school
2.8 BRN-Coordinate (National Revolution Front-Coordinate) have ambushed teachers while traveling to and from their schools and killed them in their classrooms and lodgings.
2.9 Two students from Romklao school were injured by shrapnel when their school bus was hit by an explosion in Narathiwat’s Yi Ngor district on September 27.
2.10 Separatist groups use these attacks to demonstrate their power and and discredit Thai authorities, but it is ordinary people and their children who are suffering.
2.11 Insurgents have recently stepped up attacks on civilians, causing widespread fear in both the Thai Buddhist and Malay Muslim populations.
2.12 September 10, 8-year-old Muhammadsafik Lateh stepped on a landmine while walking through bushes off the road in Narathiwat’s Ra Ngae district. The explosion severed his left leg.
2.13 A 7-year-old girl, were wounded when two 40 mm rounds were fired from a M 79 grenade launcher into a local fair in Narathiwat's Bacho district on September 29.
2.14 On august 29th group of insurgents stopped civilian’s car. They shot him in the head, decapitated him, and threw his head on the roadside, before setting his body and the pickup on fire.
2.15 Insurgents have killed more than 4,000 people, mostly civilians. Targeting civilians for attack violates international humanitarian law applicable in the region.
2.16 Some insurgent cells have merged with underground cartels involved in drug trafficking, arms smuggling, and human trafficking across the Thai- Malaysian border, adding to the thriving criminality in the region.
2.17 They continue to use landmines as "area-denial" weapons against Buddhist Thais.
2.18 On September 6 in Narathiwat's Ra Ngae district, Jiraporn Ratanawong stepped on a landmine while working in her rubber plantation, which severed her left foot.
2.19 Thailand's insurgent groups are prohibited under international humanitarian law from carrying out attacks, such as with antipersonnel landmines.
2.20 Daily violence and a climate of fear have seriously disrupted the lives of ordinary people.
2.21 Insurgents have claimed that the civilians attacked were part of the Thai Buddhist state that is a party to the armed conflict, but the laws of war allow no such justification for attacks on civilians.
2.22 International humanitarian law explicitly prohibits reprisal attacks against civilians and captured combatants.
2.23 Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra on September 5 announced that special attention would be given to improving the situation in the southern border provinces.