Thailand&#39;s restive south
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The announcement that nearly 80 Muslims have died in police custody in southern Thailand will escalate tensions in a region already blighted by violence.
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KHAO Lak was the jewel among southern Thailand&#39;s beach resorts. It has been described as a tropical paradise and a playground of the rich.
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BANGKOK, Thailand -- Buddhists in Thailand have implored Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra to end violence targeting them on an almost daily basis in the south of the country.
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Thailand&#39;s prime minister announced yesterday that hundreds of Muslims detained after a riot in the country&#39;s restive south would be freed, in a bid to ease tensions over the deaths of 85 accused rioters - including 78 who died in military custody.
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Separatist militants in Thailand's mostly Muslim southern provinces have stepped up a decades-long, low-intensity insurgency into a wave of brutal bomb attacks, assassinations, machete hackings and, in some cases, beheadings and mutilations in the past 3 1/2 years, an extensive Human Rights Watch...
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Relatives wait outside a military base in Pattani province, southern Thailand, Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2004 in a bid to see Thai-Muslim demonstrators arrested by security forces after Monday&#39;s riot.
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Thailand was back to work as normal on   Thursday, less than 36 hours after a military coup condemned by   international leaders but endorsed by the royal palace and   greeted by many Thais with relief.
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The ouster of ThailandÂs prime minister offers a chance for a new approach to an Islamic insurgency that has become nastier and more entrenched in recent years.
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A NUMBER of community and religious leaders in southern Thailand are convinced that the bloodshed there will worsen following revenge attacks for the deaths of 87 Muslims arising from a demonstration in Narathiwatâs Tak Bai district last month, reported
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ThailandÂs deposed prime minister seems to be having a better time than the generals who ousted him, who are struggling to control the country he left behind.
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Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra  ordered security forces on Monday to become more pro-active in  their efforts to restore peace in the largely Muslim south,  where more than 500 people were killed last year.
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Thailand&#39;s troubled south has been hit by fresh violence, just hours after army planes dropped 100m origami birds as a peace offering.
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Thailand went back to work as normal on   Thursday after a military coup legitimized by the king but the   opposition called for fast-tracked elections to show the new   rulers are serious about a return to democracy.
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Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra is visiting the southern town of Tak Bai, where scores of minority Muslims died under arrest two weeks ago.
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Thai policemen inspect a motorcycle which was destroyed after it exploded in Thailand&#39;s Narathiwat province. Picture:Reuters. A bomb ripped through a food market in Thailand&#39;s troubled Muslim south today killing
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Thai PM Thaksin Shinawatra promises to change tack in his handling of the violence gripping the country's south.
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Thai-Muslim citizens check for names their relatives who died after the Monday&#39;s riot erected outside a military camp in Pattani province, southern Thailand Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2004.