The new round of peace dialogue set on October 20 with the Barisan Revolusi Nasional (BRN) will see more participants from other insurgency factions taking part.
The participation of more persons on the insurgency side was revealed at the closed-door meeting in Narathiwat yesterday.
The meeting was chaired by deputy prime minister Pracha Promnok and attended by all relevant national security, provincial and military officers.
Intelligence source said that Sapa-ing Basor, a key leader of the BRN will send his representative Awae Yaba to join the peace talk with other representatives invited by the BRN to take part.
The source said that Mr Hassan Taib remained the team leader of the BRN and he has invited representatives from the old Pulo and neo-Pulo and BIPP to join, while the Thai team negotiators would remain the same.
But the source said that there was conflict within the BRN, particularly the faction led by Sapa-ing and other youth and armed groups operating in the fields which disagreed with the proposed disarming and halting armed fight during the talks. Pulo, neo-Pulo and BIPP groups also were suspicious of the BRN’s movement, the source said.
The source said that at yesterday meeting, it was revealed that if Thailand agreeing to the BRN’s five key proposals and other minor proposals in its 38-page demand, it agreed to stop all operations next year in Narathiwat, Pattani, Yala and four districts of Songkhla on a step by step basis as detailed in its proposals.
The proposals had been reviewed by a 32-member advisory team of the deputy prime minister with views that proposals that are acceptable must be clear that it had no intention of seceding the country but merely wanting freedom, equality and justices.
The advisory team also said that some of the BRN proposals had been implemented and were processing such as education that must be in accordance with the way of life of the locals.