Thailand starts sombre new year as PM predicts up to 8,000 dead
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The final death toll from Thailand's tidal wave disaster is likely to be 7,000-8,000 and the terrible task of collecting the dead is far from over, Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said.
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Facing new violence and harsh criticism, Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has promised to set up an independent commission to investigate the deaths in southern Thailand of 85 accused Muslim rioters, including 78 who died in military detention.
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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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NARATHIWAT, Thailand  - A bomb hidden in a  motorcycle killed one person and wounded at least 25 in  Thailand's mainly Muslim south on Thursday, a day ahead of a  visit to the region by Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra.
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The Thai government is facing strong international criticism for the deaths of 78 Muslim demonstrators killed after being rounded up by security forces and crammed into trucks.
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Bomb blasts rocked southern Thailand on Friday as Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra promised to get to the bottom of the deaths of 78 Muslims in military custody and punish any &quot;wrongdoers.
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Thailand's Finance Ministry said Wednesday that the devastation wreaked by deadly tidal waves which slammed into the nation's southwestern coast will likely shave 0.3 of a percentage point from gross domestic product growth in 2005.
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Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has warned that violence in the country&#39;s south could get worse. Mr Thaksin said suspected Muslim separatists wanted to provoke the government into over-reacting.
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Thailand's respected queen has made a rare public appeal for the nation to unite to end violence in the country's troubled Muslim-majority south where nearly 550 people have died this year.
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PATTANI, Thailand  - Almost 80 people died in  military custody in southern Thailand, suffocated while being  transported in trucks to army barracks after a violent  demonstration by Muslims, officials said Tuesday.
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PATTANI, Thailand, 27 October 2004 - At least 78 Muslims were suffocated or crushed to death after being arrested and packed into trucks by security forces following a riot in Muslim-dominated southern Thailand, officials said yesterday.
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Thailand will next week begin burying 513 bodies of tsunami victims that have gone unclaimed or unidentified nearly two years after the catastrophe.
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PATTANI, THAILAND, OCTOBER 26 : Almost 80 people died in military custody in southern Thailand, suffocated while being transported in trucks to Army barracks after a violent demonstration by Muslims, officials said on Tuesday.
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The identification of Thailand's tsunami dead becomes increasingly difficult as bodies decompose.
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A bomb hidden in a motorcycle killed one man and wounded six people on Friday outside a bank in Thailand&#39;s largely Muslim deep south, where authorities fear militants will step up attacks in the new year.
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Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said Thursday that most of the 6,000 people reported missing after the earthquake-powered tsunamis hit the country on Sunday are feared dead.
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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