Two policemen and a Just passed 3000, I believe. One of the Grim Milestones you don't see on CNN or NPR.
The two policemen, a Muslim and a Buddhist, were shot dead during a raid on the home of a suspected guerrilla in Yala, one of the four southernmost provinces roiled by the violence. Fifty soldiers and police then stormed the one-storey house and killed a 25-year-old Muslim
The raid followed clashes on Wednesday between security forces and insurgents suspected of killing a 70-year-old Buddhist shopkeeper. Two Muslim men, one of whom was believed to be a leading member of an insurgent group and with a 500,000 baht ($16,000) bounty on his head, died in that operation, police said..
A university think-tank that has been cataloguing the unrest attributed the decline to the deployment of more troops by new army chief Anupong Paochinda, who took office in October.
Yep, it sounds like just the sort of conclusion that only a university think-tank could come up with.
Anupong said a group of Thai
"I can assure you the government has never in any negotiations with those wrongdoers," he told reporters after a meeting of top security officials in Bangkok. After the same meeting, Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej stressed Bangkok would never hold talks with insurgents.