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Originally Posted by urtheman
In the papers thay say the government now wants to have a meeting with the people leading the insurgency and work something out but they don't know who the leaders are.
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Not really true.. The groups down there have often said they wanted dialogue and were open to discussing grievences.. Remember this is mostly not a fundamentlist issue but a long standing speratist movement and militia in a very poor and forgotten region.
Taxin has been incredibly arrogant in his references to them, almost daring them and inciting them more.. He refered to them as 'simple bandits'.. and has used derogatory terms when he discribes or addresses them.. Along with a no dialogue policy and heavy handed military tactics against poorly armed (some argue unarmed in some of the massacres) civilian population.
Then the king stepped in after tak bai.. Told taxin to chill and what was wacky tackys idea.. Drop 100000 of paper birds over the area !!!
Hmmm.. I am beggining to think that Mr Simpson may not have been the brilliant strategist we though he was..
I recently read one of the gnerals had requested to be allowed to open dialogue and see if constructive methods could be used instead of trying to crush the groups.