SOUTHERN VIOLENCE
WAEDAO HARAI & MUHAMMAD AYUB PATHAN
NARATHIWAT : More than 1,000 family members of victims killed in the southern insurgency say they are haunted by what they have seen, according to a Mental Health Department report.
The department said a total of 1,059 family members, mostly widows and orphans, in Yala, Pattani and Narathiwat have endured nightmares and visions after witnessing the victims attacked and killed.
The report was unveiled in a mental rehabilitation training workshop in Narathiwat chaired by department chief Somchai Chakrabhandu yesterday.
Some 300 Islamic religious leaders, community leaders and community workers from non-governmental organisations attended the workshop, which was aimed at training those participants to help rehabilitate people affected by the violence.
The latest victim was a 45-year-old Muslim widow killed in a drive-by shooting on her way to work at a rubber plantation in Narathiwat yesterday.
Bee-ar Salae, a mother of five, was shot by two men on a motorcycle in Bacho district at around 6.30am. She died on the spot.
In Yala, a stressed-out soldier tried to commit suicide yesterday.
The soldier, identified only as Keng, was about to jump from a third floor of a commercial building in Muang district when municipality officials managed to pull him back.
According to an initial investigation, the soldier escaped from a military camp in Yala as he wanted to return home in Songkhla.
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