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Australia has just passed a law criminalising anyone who criticises Islam or makes fun of it
this is leading instantly to more censorship and dishonest reporting as this mainstream story on the Thai bombings immediately diverts blame to political unrest due to the military coup despite the motive not yet being established
[Gulf Today] Five Philippine soldiers and two Maoist militants were killed as heavy fighting broke out anew following the cancellation by President Rodrigo Duterte of the unilateral ceasefire he had declared with the rebels.
Military spokesman Restituto Padilla said the four soldiers were killed in separate attacks by the NPA in the town of Monkayo, Compostela Valley on Friday. He added that a member of the army's elite special forces unit was also killed when the militants attacked a military camp in a remote village in Valencia City, Bukidnon.
In addition, 12 soldiers and two NPA rebels were injured and three of their comrades were captured in the clashes that began on Thursday afternoon in Monkayo, Compostela Valley. Padilla said the fighting resumed the following day when the military pursued the militants.
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[Bangkok Post] A factory was torched, a military base hit with M79 grenades, and public facilities set ablaze in Yala province early on Monday.
In Bannang Sata district, a fire began in a warehouse at about 1 a.m. and destroyed it and the wood stored inside, along with a 10-wheel truck and stacks of wood surrounding it. Kittisak Mahithimontri, the factory owner, said he believed the arsonists had scaled over the wall and set the building ablaze. It was not known if the fire was related to the insurgency.
Around the same time in Krong Pinang district, militants fired three M79 grenades at a military base. Two of the grenades exploded, wounding three soldiers.
Shortly afterward, a mobile telephone signal tower opposite a gas station was set on fire. A nearby power pole was also set ablaze. In Raman district, four closed-circuit surveillance cameras were set on fire.
The disturbances come ahead of a security meeting on the security situation in the southernmost provinces called on Monday by Deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwon.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
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[Gulf Today] Five Philippine soldiers and two Maoist militants were killed as heavy fighting broke out anew following the cancellation by President Rodrigo Duterte of the unilateral ceasefire he had declared with the rebels.
