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Thai FM rules out any form of autonomy for South
BANGKOK — Thailand has ruled out any form of autonomy for its Muslim-majority south and said there was no evidence that foreign groups linked to Al Qaeda were involved in the region’s unrest.

In an interview with AFP, Foreign Minister Kantathi Suphamongkhon rejected an appeal for self-rule. “We’re not a federal system. Autonomy in that sense is something that is not part of our system,” he said. “It’s a unified system that we have. We don’t have the concept of autonomy within our constitution,” Kantathi said.
So there.

Posted by: Steve White 2005-11-10
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