Yutthasak, Army chief visit deep South Monday
Deputy Prime Minister Yutthasak Sasiprapha and Army chief Gen Prayuth Chan-ocha visited the deep South on Monday to be briefed on the current situation and to instruct local agencies to speed up implementing the government's projects and strategies agains
Yutthasak and Prayuth held a meeting of local security agencies at the Internal Security Operations Command Area 4 at the Sirindhorn Army base in Pattani’s Yarang district at 10.30am.
The two were briefed on the current situation by Army Area 4 Commander Lt Gen Udomchai Thamsarojrat, Pol Lt Gen Paitoon Chuchaiya, the commander of the Border Patrol Police for Southern Provinces, Yala Governor Dejrat Simsiri and Thawee Sodsong, the secretary-general of the Southern Border Provinces Administrative Centre as well as commanders of other local security agencies.
Speaking to reporters before the meeting, Yutthasak said the briefing was being held to update him on the current situation and to allow him to inform local agencies of the six urgent strategies for dealing with the southern insurgency. The strategies have been approved by the prime minister.
The meeting also discussed how to prioritise the 29 strategies for officials’ operations in the southern border provinces, Yutthasak said.
He said the police and troops were also being ordered to step up security for the region from July 20 to August 20, which is the Muslims’ fasting month or Ramadan.
He said the local agencies would also be told speed up more than 300 development projects during the next three months, which have been approved by the committee in charge of southern strategies.
