Southern Thai Insurgent group BRN claim responsibility for August co-ordinated bombings: Security Implications for Thailand
[8 September]
The southern Thai separatist group National Revolution Front, BRN, has claimed responsibility for last month’s bombing attacks in the south of Thailand, according to a news agency. An unnamed commander in the BRN told BenarNews it was behind not only the school attack in Pattani province on Tuesday, but they were behind the co-ordinated attacks across seven provinces that killed four people and injured dozens during the Mother’s Day holiday in August.
“We claim that the attack in Tak Bai district was the act of our operation, as well as the train bombing and those attacks in the seven upper southern provinces too,” the commander was quoted in the report here.
This is a significant admission on the part of the BRN, in that the organisation rarely claims responsibility for its actions in the restive region. Now that it is verified as having been the southern insurgents what next for the security situation in Thailand?
The potential ramifications will be explored by ISS Risk in an upcoming situational terrorism risk assessment on Thailand with a focus on the changing landscape of the domestic insurgency coupled to increasingly volatile political environment.
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