Yutthasak orders study of special administrative zone for deep South
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Deputy Prime Minister Yutthasak Sasiprapha said Tuesday that he has ordered the National Security Council to look into the setting up of a special administrative zone for the deep South.
Yutthasak, who is in charge of security affairs, said the NSC has been ordered to study how to set up the special zone for Yala, Pattani and Narathiwat in detail.
The NSC was told to study the laws that would be needed to enforce the special zone and the steps that would need to be taken.
Yutthasak said he has also ordered security agencies responsible for the deep South to study whether the state of emergency should be lifted in areas where the situation has improved.
Yutthasak said the government would enforce the Internal Security Act instead of the emergency decree in areas where the situation has improved.
The deputy prime minister said the ISA is now enforced in Pattani’s Mae Lan district and in four Songkhla districts Thepha, Sabayoi, Nathawee and Chana instead of the emergency decree.
Yutthasak said Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra had assigned him to take full charge of efforts to restore peace in the deep South so he would thus coordinate the work of the NSC and the Southern Border Provinces Administrative Centre to try make the efforts more effective.
