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BANGKOK, Thailand—Teachers in insurgency-wracked southern Thailand decided Monday to suspend classes at hundreds of schools in the region over the killings of education workers by Muslim militants.
“We want to put pressure on security forces and the government to take greater care of our safety,” Boonsom Thongsriplai, chairman of the teachers association in the region, told AFP.
A female school principal was killed last Thursday in Pattani’s Nongchik district, the latest of scores of teachers targeted by the insurgents.
The move means 321 schools will temporarily shut from Tuesday in Pattani, one of several southernmost provinces plagued by an eight-year-old insurgency. It is unclear when they will reopen.
The unrest has claimed more than 5,300 lives, both Buddhist and Muslim, with near-daily bomb or gun attacks.
Teachers working in non-religious schools are frequently targeted because they are seen as a symbol of government authority. Militants view the school system as an effort by Bangkok to impose Buddhist culture on the south.
More than 150 education workers have been killed in the Thai south since 2004. The latest victim was a head teacher who was gunned down last week.
Critics accuse the government of failing to address the grievances of Thailand’s Malay Muslim minority, including alleged abuses by the military and a perceived lack of respect for their ethnic identity, language and religion.—With AP
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School set ablaze in Pattani
A large gang of armed militants set fire to Ban Thasu School in Panare district of Pattani province early Monday morning, damaging one room, reports said.
Police said the arson occurred about 1.45am. A group of 15-20 armed men in black went into the school, tied up a temporary employee and set fire to the two-storey school building before fleeing.
Firefighters rushed to the scene and managed to put out the fire shortly afterwards.
The blaze partly damaged a teachers' room.
The attack happened at the very start of the the first day of the reopening of 332 state-run schools in Pattani, which had been closed by teachers demanding better safety from Nov 26-30 following the murderg of a school director in Nong Chik district on Nov 22.
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Teacher shot, wounded in Narathiwat
A teacher was shot and seriously wounded in Sungai Padi district of Narathiwat province on Tuesday afternoon, reports said.
Thirapol Chusongsaeng, a teacher of Ban Boko School in tambon Sako, was driving home in his car after school when he was followed by two men on a motorcycle who opened fire at him.
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Narathiwat to close hundreds of schools
Almost 380 schools in Narathiwat will close for two days, starting Thursday, following the shooting of two teachers in the southern border provinces this week.
Sanguan Intarak, chairman of the Confederation of Teachers in Narathiwat, Wednesday called a confederation committee meeting to discuss security for teachers in the deep South.
Mr Sanguan said the committee had agreed to suspend classes at 378 schools under the Narathiwat Primary Educational Service Area Office 1-3.
The schools would be closed Thursday and Friday so teachers can hold talks with Education Minister Pongthep Thepkanchana during his visit to Pattani Thursday.
All Buddhist teachers in high-risk areas will be transferred to schools in safer locations, Mr Sanguan said.
Teachers in Narathiwat are demanding village taskforces be set up to guard them.
The demand will be presented to Deputy Education Minister Sermsak Pongpanich, who is accompanying the minister on his visit to the deep South.
The idea of establishing a security taskforce was also put forward at Wednesday's teachers meeting.
"Village-based taskforces to protect teachers should be mobilised, as more soldiers are being pulled out of some areas in line with the government's policy to give police a greater role in maintaining security," he said.
"There are not enough security officers to take care of teacher safety, particularly at suburban schools," he added.
The school closures come in the wake of two gun attacks against two teachers this week. Chatsuda Nilsuwan, a 33-year-old teacher at Ban Ta-ngo school in Yala, was shot dead on Monday. Thirapol Chusaongsaeng, 52, a teacher at Ban Boko school in Narathiwat, was shot and wounded the following day.
Meanwhile, Chinnapat Bhumirat, secretary-general of the Office of Basic Education Commission, said an Islamic studies programme should be introduced in more schools in the South.
The intensive course has been introduced in 350 secondary schools and the feedback has been satisfactory.
The course aims to help students gain a better understanding of Islam. A request for the course to be made more widely available, including in primary schools, will be submitted to the minister, he added.
Mr Chinnapat, however, acknowledged that a shortage of teaching staff has prevented the government from offering Islamic studies in more schools.
Meanwhile, three suspected insurgents were arrested in a raid in Pattani's Nong Chik district yesterday.
The men were nabbed in a raid in Moo 6 of tambon Tu Yong.
Police said Nureehan Awae-Keajeu, 23, and Suhaimee Musor, 22, were suspects wanted on security charges. Masudee Yusor, 26, was apprehended on an outstanding arrest warrant.
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