Witness participated in the 2004 raid, which was seen as the beginning of a new wave of unrest, but eventually gave up violence.
Published on February 3, 2024, at 16 :41.
On Saturday, a former rebel who took part in the 2004 military armory assault was discovered shot dead on his plastic farm in Narathiwat, on the southern border of the province.
The Naradhiwas Rajanagarindra military station in Narathiwat’s Cho Airong area was the site of a weapon theft on January 4, 2004 by Wae Ali Copter Waji, 67. Four soldiers were killed as a result of the affair.
In the three border regions, where low-level dissident murder had been occurring intermittently for decades, the outpost raid was seen as the beginning of a new stage of the insurrection. The issue is still going on today.
The secular separatist’s body was discovered on his foam tree plantation in the Rueso neighborhood. At 8.15 a.m. on Saturday, the army was alerted.
He appeared to have been shot dead, and inquiries are being made to identify the offender and the motivation.
In addition to leading the attack in 2004, Wae Ali Copter Waji was renowned for enrolling 99 other rebels in re-education programs while admitting that using violence did not advance their cause. He later participated in a regional development initiative and collaborated with state initiatives to bring past southern separatists back into society.
More than 22, 200 violent situations in Thailand’s southern place were connected to a total of 7, 540 deaths and over 14, 000 accidents between 2004 and November of last year, the most recent year for which data have been compiled by the supervising group Deep South Watch.
The state and separatist parties have been in peace talks for a long time, but no resolution has been reached.