- Published: 01/11/2012 at 12:00 AM
- Writer: Post Reporters
"The prime minister told me it is necessary that I be replaced as cabinet member and I understand that," said the former deputy prime minister for security affairs.
However, he said the premier has asked him to remain active in suppressing insurgency violence in the deep South.
Gen Yutthasak is expected to take on an advisory role in addressing southern security matters.
Gen Yutthasak was removed as deputy premier in the government's latest cabinet reshuffle.
The new cabinet appointees will officially take their posts after they have been sworn in.
No deputy prime ministers-designate were suitable to take charge of southern problems, Gen Yutthasak said, adding that Ms Yingluck should lead the security agencies related to the southern security while he and the army chief provide assistance.
Meanwhile, in Raman district of Yala yesterday, a suspected insurgent core member died in a gun battle with security officers.
About 100 security officers stormed a house in tambon Yata where insurgent suspects were believed to be hiding.
Occupants of the house shot back, triggering a gun battle in which Mana Masaejuenarong, 35, a suspected core insurgent member, and Usman Wari, 26, also believed to be an insurgent member, were shot and killed.
Two border patrol policemen suffered gunshot wounds to their legs.
Mr Mana was allegedly involved in the killings of three military rangers and one housewife on a pickup truck in Yala's Muang district on Sept 15.
Also in Raman district, Doromae Saou, 49, and his 11-year-old son, Akmal, were shot dead inside their pickup truck on a local road in Bukaebueranga village in tambon Asong.
Another son, Asmin, 9, was seriously injured and taken to a hospital.
In Yala's Muang district, police were alerted to an unexploded M79 grenade at the Yala Home for Boys, a state-run child care facility, in tambon Sateng yesterday morning.
Police believed the perpetrator had been aiming for the Border Patrol Police Sub-Division 443 nearby, but missed their target.
The grenade was successfully recovered and demolished, officials said.
In Pattani, five policemen were wounded, two critically, in a blast caused by a bomb-rigged motorcycle in Nong Chick district last night.
Meanwhile, army chief Prayuth Chan-ocha yesterday lambasted the insurgents, saying the attacks they carried out showed they had no religious faith.
"Law-abiding Muslims want an end to the violence," he said. "But the perpetrators kill children, women, monks, officials and innocent people every day without saying what they really want."
He said the attackers are connected to drug-smuggling gangs and he encouraged the public to reject the criminal activity.
Share your thoughts
- Discussion 1 : 01/11/2012 at 11:01 AM
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@bkposter #7: Many of the people who were banned from politics were in the management of a party which allowed many of their possible MPs to cheat in the election. The party could have thrown these vote buying want to be MPs out but they didn’t. So who is at fault? This is like if you are a boss of a restaurant and you know that some of your waiters cheat the customers. A decent manager would throw the bad apples out. A bad manager lets his staff continue to cheat people and then he is surprised if he himself is accused of cheating. If PT wants a clean image they should start with removing the fugitive criminal from their unofficial top.
- Discussion 2 : 01/11/2012 at 09:26 AM
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Ref disc 5
This is the problem = 17 ministries and 66 agencies, do you think anyone in the country can coordinate this? never! This is one of the reason why this stuff doesn't work, it's just as simple. This can only be handled if you put one qualified (real qualified, no mil, no police and educated outside the country) person in charge and give this person 100% authority and if the people elsewhere don't do what he or she said fire them. It is not possible to solve this problem in the south the Thai way.
- Discussion 3 : 01/11/2012 at 09:12 AM
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RE: D3 many of the people that were banned from politics for 5 years did nothing wrong at all, the ruling was politically motivated to get rid of the opposition. They banned the whole party. What would society think if the PT would try the same stunt right now and ban the DP because they found one person that cheated? I do not think we would it consider it fair to disqualify them all because they are in that same political party?
- Discussion 4 : 01/11/2012 at 08:57 AM
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Chalerm is required only to manipulate the legal system - to prove the reds right, to prove Thaksin innocent. His aim is to create a divide in the legal system, in the military and in the police force. Anyone who clicks Dislike to this post of mine, is just surprised that the truth can be put so easily and so briefly.
- Discussion 5 : 01/11/2012 at 08:43 AM
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What a ridiculous farce. One of the most important issues facing the government which previously was being coordinated by the general in a cabinet level position is now downgraded. One of the main concerns has been coordinating the 17 ministries and 66 agencies trying to tackle this issue - surely better done from a cabinet position. Meantime we keep a man such as Plodprasop Suraswadi (mercifully no longer in charge of Science and Tech) as a deputy PM - what a waste of space
- Discussion 6 : 01/11/2012 at 08:29 AM
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Generals are the wrong people to handle such things, they have no education in that field and simply dont know whats going on.
- Discussion 7 : 01/11/2012 at 08:10 AM
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that why politics here will never improve,those found guilty of abusing their power,or convicted on other charges,get red carded for 5 years and allowed to return only to reoffend,most other countries would ban these criminals for life,but not thailand,forgive and forget,that why we have chaos,and who in the deep south gonna trust this man ,exactly what has he done or acheived so far
- Discussion 8 : 01/11/2012 at 07:40 AM
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Oldairman, the government keeps doing it because the Thai people allow them to. A shame, but reality.
- Discussion 9 : 01/11/2012 at 06:47 AM
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Just another slap in the face to the Thai public and especially to those in the South. Why does this government keep employing people who have been found guilty of crimes against the state?
I suppose they get their direction and "leadership qualities" from the dear leader in Dubai.
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