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2006-05-22 Southeast Asia

Schools closed in Thailand's troubled deep South

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Posted by ryuge 2006-05-22 01:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 More than 1,200 people have died in clashes, ambushes, shootings, explosions and beheadings in the deep South since January 2004, when the area's long simmering separatist struggle started to escalate.
And Thai authorities have arrested two. You had better get more than that and reverse this senseless slaughter.

Posted by wxjames 2006-05-22 07:26|| 2006-05-22 07:26|| Front Page Top

#2 I posted a story here (a least a year ago) from the Thai press showing the Thai gov't groveling to the Islamists. They were boosting funding to the madrassas, and making all kinds of concessions...

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2006-05-22 10:00|| 2006-05-22 10:00|| Front Page Top

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