Thailand Acknowledges Prisoner Deaths During Transit
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At least 78 people died from suffocation while being transported in overcrowded military trucks after a violent demonstration in Thailand&#39;s largely Muslim south, government officials said today.
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78 protesters died of suffocation or from convulsions after they were arrested and herded into military trucks for detention following a riot on Monday in Muslim-dominated Narathiwat province, it was disclosed Tuesday.
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BANGKOK: Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra vowed to continue arresting ringleaders of separatist attacks as a volunteer rescue worker became the latest victim of violence that has claimed more than 560 lives this year.
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Thailand's PM says senior officials' negligance led to the deaths in custody of more than 80 Muslim protesters.
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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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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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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.
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NARATHIWAT, Thailand - A powerful bomb hidden in a motorcycle killed one person and wounded 30 in Thailandâs mainly Muslim south on Thursday, a day ahead of Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatraâs visit to the restive region.
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Bangkok (VNA) - In an address broadcast on television on Friday, Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said that tension in southern Thailand has caused great losses in human lives and the socio-economic situation of the country for months.
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TAKBAI, Thailand At least 84 people died after a riot in southern Thailand, many of them crushed and suffocated after they were arrested and packed tightly into trucks, officials said Tuesday.
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PATTANI, THAILAND -- At least 78 people were suffocated or crushed to death after being arrested and packed into police trucks following a riot in southern Thailand.
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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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A Thai medic sprays disinfectant over the rotting corpses of those killed in Sunday&#39;s tidal waves at a Buddhist temple in Pang-Nga province, southern Thailand, Thursday, Dec. 30, 2004.
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Villagers on Thursday buried some of the 78 Muslims who died in military custody after a protest in troubled southern Thailand, while authorities insisted at a briefing for diplomats that the detainees were not intentionally mistreated. Later Thursday evening, a bomb exploded at an open-front bar in a southern Thai town on Thursday, killing at least two people and injuring 21, police said.
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More than 1,100 Muslims detained after a riot were freed Saturday, as the government tried to ease anger in Thailand&#39;s restive south over the deaths of dozens of accused rioters - including 78 who perished in military custody.
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AT least 84 Thai Muslims died -- mainly from suffocation in the back of packed security force trucks - after police and troops broke up a violent demonstration in the kingdom&#39;s troubled south, Thai officials said today.
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Almost 80 people have died in military custody in southern Thailand, suffocated while being transported in trucks to army barracks after a violent demonstration by Muslims, officials say.