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Troops kill 2 rebels in Thai south shootout
[Straits Times] TWO suspected forces of Evil were killed in a shootout in Thailand's restive Mohammedan south on Saturday after launching an ambush on a military patrol, police said.The gunnies, believed to be separatist rebels, opened fire on troops and paramilitary rangers early in the morning in the mountains of Yala province, leading to a shootout that left two of the Islamic fascisti dead. The rest of the group decamped and three M-16 assault rifles were retrieved, police said. The attacks were the latest in a recent intensification of violence in Yala, Pattani and Narathiwat provinces bordering Malaysia, where ethnic Malay separatists are waging a bloody rebellion against the Thai state. The violence has killed 4,500 people since the decades-old conflict resurfaced in early 2004 in the once independent region, where ethnic Malay Mohammedans form the majority of the local population. Posted by: Fred 2011-03-20 |
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