Songkhla under ISA for another year
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In a meeting yesterday, a partial Cabinet resolved to extend the enforcement of the Internal Security Act in the four border districts of Songkhla for another year. This meeting, called by Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, included nine Cabinet members.
Apart from the ISA enforced in the four Songkhla districts, Pattani, Yala and Narathiwat are under emergency rule.
Deputy Prime Minister Chalerm Yoobamrung said the government would try to reduce the areas under emergency rule and would try to enforce the ISA instead. He said the Cabinet also decided to put Defence Minister Sukampol Suwannathat in charge of peace-restoration operations in the deep South.
