Spekulationerna kring vilka som utförde bombdåden fortsätter. De enda som kategoriskt vet är juntan, som envist står fast vid vad redan visste innan någon utredning ens påbörjats, nämligen att det inte är knutet till de muslimska terrorgrupperna i södra Thailand. Röda aktivister arresteras däremot fortsatt. Poliserna som sköter utredningen verkar inte riktigt veta vilket ben de ska stå på, ibland uttalanden om att det visst kan vara muslimska sepratister, som därefter följs uttalanden där man håller med juntan.
Tidningen The Nation uppmärksammar det uppenbara problemet i dagens ledare: Man lär väl hålla alla alternativ öppna under en utredning. Juntan verkar dock mindre intresserad av det. Intressant är också att det sägs att det genomförts i snitt 5 bombattacker om dagen (!) i södra Thailand under augusti. Detta enligt en svensk forskare, Anders Engvall.
"Officials have yet to offer concrete evidence to support their argument that insurgents are not to blame. Meanwhile, experts say the attacks bear hallmarks of the separatist Barisan Revolusi Nasional (BRN) - particularly in the use of twin bombings, a tactic often employed by the militants group. The size and type of explosive also matched the BRN's typical modus operandi, experts said.
Anders Engvall, an academic who has studied the Southern conflict for more than a decade, reported at the New Mandala website that there have been an average of five bomb attacks each day in the far South since the beginning of August.
If last week's deadly assaults do indeed have connections with the insurgency, the government has a duty to inform the public accordingly. For our basic safety, we citizens have the right to know whether the BRN has now developed the capacity to carry out attacks outside the border provinces.
Meanwhile, as a military-led administration, the government seems to be under-performing in its specialism - security issues. Surely more could have been done to foresee and prevent the 50-plus bomb attacks that have occurred so far this month.
More importantly, Bangkok must call a halt to its knee-jerk blaming of red-shirts, which conveniently avoids the truth that they, as a military-dominated government, have failed in their handling of the far South issue.
Most of all, nobody - neither soldier nor politician - should be permitted to exploit deadly attacks on innocent people for political gain.
http://www.nationmultimedia.com/politics/Seeing-red-junta-must-dig-deeper-for-the-truth-30293043.html
