Warrant issued for Rohingya 'insurgency operative'
AN ARREST WARRANT has been taken out for a Rohingya man on the strength of an intelligence report from the new Security Problems Integral Centre claiming that he was an operative for the insurgency in the deep South and was preparing terror attacks in Tha
An internal police order issued on November 7 identified the suspect as Then Win, or Har San, aged 53.
A security source said yesterday that the man was preparing some money for plastic surgery to change his appearance.
He has also been accused of planning terrorist activities in Myanmar.
The order has been circulated to Metropolitan and Immigration police, but both bureaus and their senior staff denied knowing of it when contacted yesterday.
Meanwhile in Narathiwat’s Si Sakhon district, separatists were suspected of hanging cloth propaganda banners at various locations.
At one spot, a villager said he was trying to remove a sign, which carried the “Pattani Independence” slogan like many of the others, but stepped on one of two home-made mines planted nearby.
Explosive-ordnance disposal personnel managed to detonate the other mine safely.
