Thailand drops paper birds on Muslim south
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PANARE, Thailand - Around 50 Thai Air Force planes âbombedâ the largely Muslim southern with paper birds on Sunday as a symbol of peace for the restive region where nearly 500 people have been killed since January.
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Millions of origami paper cranes yesterday rained down upon Thailand&#39;s three violence-torn southern provinces in an extravagant government-sponsored gesture aimed at bringing peace to the predominantly Muslim region.
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BANGKOK, Thailand -- Thousands of teachers in Thailand have walked off their jobs to protest a lack of security in the country&#39;s south.
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Fresh violence flared in mainly Muslim  southern Thailand Monday, hours after the Air Force dropped an  estimated 100 million origami "peace birds" to try and quell a  wave of unrest which has claimed nearly 500 lives.
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More bombs hit Thailand&#39;s largely Muslim south on Saturday, killing a shopper in a mainly Buddhist town and wounding 14 as Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra vowed to resolve the crisis.
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Thailandâs government has come under harsh attack from media, politicians, activists and ordinary citizens for the deaths of 78 Muslim protesters in custody, with many saying authorities are making matters worse in the volatile, Muslim-majority south.
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The violent rebellion in Thailand&#39;s three southernmost Muslim-dominated provinces is not improving and leaves the civilian population increasingly exposed to killings, Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said.
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Buddhist workers in southern Thailand in revenge for the October deaths of 85 Muslim protesters, police say. to families of the dead protesters, most of whom died of suffocation in army custody.
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About 120 million origami birds were air-dropped over southern Thailand yesterday in an attempt to quell a Muslim insurgency that has led to the deaths of more than 500 people this year.
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BANGKOK Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra&#39;s tough and &quot;unrepentant&quot; response to violence in mainly Muslim provinces in the south of Thailand, although appealing to voters in other regions of the country, is causing growing unease among Thailand&#39;s main
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Thailand's prime minister says he will not be forced to talk to suspected Muslim separatist in the south.
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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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BANGKOK, Thailand -- A coordinated string of at least 29 bomb blasts in Thailand's largely Muslim south may have been timed for the start of Lunar New Year festivities and intended to frighten ethnic Chinese traders as part of a campaign to damage the economy, a military spokesman said this week.
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Two people were shot dead by insurgents in Thailand&#39;s Muslim-dominated deep south on Sunday, when the country was praying peace for the region at a ceremony ofdropping hundred of millions origami birds.
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BANGKOK, Oct. 5 -- Thailand's military has agreed to hold talks with Muslim rebels involved in an insurgency in the country's south, the powerful army chief said Thursday. The announcement marked a reversal of a policy held by the elected government that was deposed in a coup last month.
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BANGKOK : Fifty aircraft were due to scatter 120 million paper birds across Thailand&#39;s trouble-hit Muslim-majority south in a peace gesture that has captured the imagination of most of the nation, officials said.
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MARK COLVIN: You might call them weapons of mass distraction - the hundred-million &quot;peace birds&quot; made of folded paper that the Thai Air Force has been dropping over southern Thailand.