The cabinet on November 2 resolved to let Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra to take charge of overseeing the unrest situation in the deep South after General Yutthasak Sasiprapa lost his cabinet post in the latest cabinet reshuffle.

With newcomers in command at the National Police Office, several new constructive approaches are to be applied in the restive deep South in a bid to win public confidence and trust of the police among the ethnic Malay Muslims there.

The perpetrators of violent incidents in the far South should be treated as terrorists whereas the government must be ready for peace talks with the terrorist groups and must come up with new peace overtures, said Panitharn Wattanayakorn, a respectable security expert and former secretary-general of of former prime minister Abhisit Vejjajiva.

The National Security Council is in favour of peace talks with militant groups in the deep South but is against an autonomous state or a special administration zone for ethnic Muslims.

The latest teacher shot dead by suspected militants in the restive deep South knew he was marked for death but he refused to give up his teaching job and went to school and back home riding unescorted in a motorcycle.