Narathiwat classes cancelled after teacher shot dead

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Narathiwat classes cancelled after teacher shot dead

Published: 24 Jan 2013 at 16.35
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Twenty-one schools in Narathiwat's Bacho district shut their doors on Thursday after a teacher was shot dead in the canteen of Ban Tanyong school by insurgents on Wednesday.

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The Educational Service Office, which oversees the district, said 21 out of 27 schools, including Ban Tanyong, closed their classroom doors on Thursday and will not reopen until Monday.

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highlander
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Discussion 11 : 25 Jan 2013 at 00.2011
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The brave teachers are qualified to teach, what they need is a military escort and military security around the schools to prevent so called insurgents entering. It's high time the military and/or police caught some of these killers and interrogate them to find out who really is financing these killings and get closer to the source.
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Discussion 10 : 24 Jan 2013 at 22.5610
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Soldiers as teachers? I can't see that working. I was stopped by the police today and the senior police officer didn't even know the word for license. I can't see our army and police as the best educators. Once again the government is avoiding the real issue.
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Discussion 9 : 24 Jan 2013 at 22.429
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Having police officers stand in for teachers, is only going to invite problems. Under this plan, insurgents will simply target police. The fact is, police aren't trained to fight an insurgency. The insurgency movement in the south can only be stopped with military force. If the military fails to become involved in the proper training to take this insurgency out, the insurgency will soon spread northward. My advice is to bring in special forces before it's too late.
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Discussion 8 : 24 Jan 2013 at 22.048
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I just realised something. The ordinary policeman has no more than a secondary education. They'd better assigned commissioned policemen to be teachers.
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Discussion 7 : 24 Jan 2013 at 21.157
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I think offering police as teacher replacements is a great idea. But until the people committing these atrocities are found and eliminated there can be no solution to this mess.
Building some stuff, or making some jobs is not going to fix a problem which at its core is ideological in nature.
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Discussion 6 : 24 Jan 2013 at 19.266
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no rest for the thai citizens in deep south,no action by pt ,just fanatasies about money spinning big projects ,wake up thailand,there serving amongst5 themselves only
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Discussion 5 : 24 Jan 2013 at 19.265
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Force is not solving the problem is it and it never will.This attitude the we are stronger than you dose not work in these circumstances. Talking and negotiating is the only way forward.How long will it take these so called leaders of society to realise they are acting like luddites.
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Discussion 4 : 24 Jan 2013 at 19.184
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They really have no idea do they.
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Discussion 3 : 24 Jan 2013 at 19.073
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"Deputy Prime Minister Chalerm Yubamrung, who is in charge of security affairs, said he supported the idea that police officers stand in for teachers in the region."
The police chief should give the good example by going there as a teacher..and not why Chalerm himself.
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Discussion 2 : 24 Jan 2013 at 19.052
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"Six thousand additional police will be deployed to the southern border provinces, he added."
What about sending the 50,000 police men who were used at the Pitak Siam Rally??
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