Lt. Gen. Nakrob Boonbuathong, who chaired a Thai government panel working to restart peace talks with insurgent groups in the country’s Deep South, has been removed from that duty, he told BenarNews on Wednesday.
“I’ve been verbally informed that I’ve been removed from the post,” Nakrob said, adding that he did not know what his next assignment would be.
Someone else from the government team, now reduced to eight members, will take over negotiating details of demands and terms between the two sides, Nakrob said.
But an informal meeting between government negotiators and MARA Patani, an umbrella group representing Deep South rebel factions, is still set for next week, both sides said. It would be the first meeting with both sides fully represented since August 2015.
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