Thai PM: Mistakes made over riots
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PATTANI, Thailand -- Thailand&#39;s prime minister has said security forces made mistakes handling a group of Muslim rioters and has expressed regret that nearly 80 people died of suffocation while in custody.
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An Islamic leader in Thailand&#39;s troubled south has said authorities overreacted to a protest on Monday which left six people dead.
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Senior Thai officials were negligent in the deaths of 78 Muslims in army custody in October and will be punished, Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said on Wednesday.
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BANGKOK : Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said the government would prosecute 300 Muslims detained at a riot this week that led to the deaths of 87 protesters, while another 900 would be released.
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Facing new violence and harsh criticism, the prime minister said Friday he would set up an independent commission to investigate the deaths of 85 Muslim youths in southern Thailand, including 78 who suffocated or were crushed to death in military custody.
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Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra will address the nation today as his government faces its biggest crisis yet after the deaths of 85 Muslim protesters, most in military custody, this week.
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PATTANI - Thailand&#39;s Government faced withering criticism after nearly 80 Muslims suffocated to death while in Army custody, with one newspaper blaming the tragedy on the Prime Minister&#39;s &quot;flawed&quot; leadership.
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"We screwed up," the prime minister tells the nation, trying to prepare it for economic austerity. Instead he sparks street protests reminiscent of 1956
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UBON RATCHATHANI, Thailand  - Thai Muslims who  have studied Islam abroad are behind the spate of violence in  the far south which has claimed almost 500 lives since January,  Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said Tuesday.
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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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Iraq&#39;s prime minister said today mistakes were made during a raid on a Baghdad mosque last week that sparked a surge in violence in the capital, and he had ordered an investigation.
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Thailand's Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra called a state of emergency Tuesday as coup rumors sweep Bangkok.
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An Islamic leader in southern Thailand says authorities "overreacted" to a protest, after six people are killed.
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Arsonists set five schools on fire in   central Thailand, a stronghold of deposed Prime Minister   Thaksin Shinawatra who was ousted in a military coup last week,   the army said on Wednesday.
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IN THE wake of the third serious clash in Thailand&#39;s southern provinces last Monday, Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra stated yesterday his belief that his government - in power since February 2001 â-quot;is the first in Thailand&#39;s history that has
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Thailand&#39;s premier says the military will no longer break up protests following the deaths of 87 Muslim demonstrators after a riot in the country&#39;s south.
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One of Thailand's new military rulers pleads for international understanding of the reasons behind the coup.