kiwiincambodia wrote:Just getting this in before Jamie or AM wake up....

Damn you Kiwi!
Cunt!

any more news on this? what other locations were bombed other than hua hin and phuket? any more deaths/injuries?

Just speaking to a friend in Thailand now....

From a friend...
''last night there were 2 bombs in Hua Hin, then today 2 more in Hua Hin, 2 in Surat Thani, 2 in Phuket and 3 in Phang Nga''

kiwiincambodia wrote:Just speaking to a friend in Thailand now....

From a friend...
''last night there were 2 bombs in Hua Hin, then today 2 more in Hua Hin, 2 in Surat Thani, 2 in Phuket and 3 in Phang Nga''

jeezus, any idea whos behind it?

Nothing yet.

count is 11 now
gov blaming it on red shirts

frank lee bent wrote:count is 11 now
gov blaming it on red shirts

Possibly but may also be Kumpulan Mujahidin Malaysia,? supposedly defunct for the last two years but who knows. I worked in this region 25 years ago and it was pretty tense at times then.

Beheadings, bombings, drive-by shootings, assassinations, extra-judicial killings and vicious assaults have left more than 6300 people dead and at least 11,500 injured since 2004 in south-east Asia's longest-running war in Thailand's four southernmost provinces.

Armed and organised ethnic Malays – almost all of whom are Muslims – are pitted against the predominantly Buddhist Thai state in a cycle of violence that is rarely reported outside of Thailand. Old report 2015 http://www.smh.com.au/world/the-war-in- ... ha6aa.html

they have never attacked tourist areas before

It's hard to understand why the separatists have not bombed tourist areas previously. The war in the south just goes on, hugely expensive for everyone. Doesn't every new regime pretend that they have a solution?
Making Thailand a federation and giving the regions a voice would help but that is obviously never going to happen. I wonder how it would have worked out if the Thais had been able to retain the big slice of Cambodia that they were forced to return post WW2.
I guess the Viets would have grabbed the rump that was left and poor Cambodians would have had healthcare and schools. It would have been a pretty fractious border for the duration of the Vietnam war.
I remember being in Bangkok when the Vietnamese invaded Cambodia and the Thai were shitting themselves. A barang journo said at the time that the only thing to stop Vietnamese tanks would be Bangkok's traffic.