Kra - - Again!

This is coolbert:

Only the day before yesterday, more guerrilla/insurgent/terrorist/partisan activity in Kra.

Thirty bombings. Coordinated. Shooting of a Buddhist couple. Killing of a military official at his home. All in ONE DAY!

This suggests a very high level of organization, sophistication, planning, etc., on the part of the villains.

This is not going to be an easy situation for the Thai to bring under control, much less eradicate.

Earmarks of the classical guerrilla/insurgent/terrorist/partisan campaign?

You bet’cha!

We rob a bank. We set off a bomb. We burn down a school. We shoot a Buddhist couple. We kill a military official. We intimidate a government official. We declare a one day general strike

I would suspect we are going to see an ever-escalating level of violence with regard to this conflict. Acts of terror further afield. Bombings of a terrorist nature in the Thai Buddhist heartland? Attacks on the tourist trade in Thailand? [with regard to the latter, the sex tourist trade in Thailand would undoubtedly make a tempting target for the Islamic inspired uprising that this is.] Attack foreigners and the Thai infidel fornicators and kill two birds with one stone, so to speak!!

This Kra “rebellion” is at about a stage right now as was the Tupamaros “rebellion” of the 1970’s. The latter taking place in Uruguay. Suppressed by a determined Uruguayan government, but only with the greatest of difficulties. The Tupamaros “guerrillas” were very ingenious, bold, daring, resourceful. If the Kra “rebels” are anywhere near in ability what the Tupamaros where, the Thai government is in big trouble!!

[rent and see the excellent movie “State of Siege”. Concerns the kidnapping and eventual murder of an American diplomat/counter-insurgency advisor by the Tupamaros.]

coolbert.