Thai protest toll rises sharply
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More than 80 people are now said to have died in Monday's clashes in southern Thailand, most of them crushed.
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Thailand has stepped up efforts to find the organisers of a rally in its troubled Muslim south, in which six protesters were killed in a clash with security forces.
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Swedish Foreign Minister Laila Freivalds, who has returned from tsunami-devastated Thailand, says she believes the total death toll from the disaster in the region was rising towards 200,000.
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BANGKOK - As protesters filled the streets of Burma's cities in greater numbers than ever yesterday, swelling the crowds in the country's largest city to an estimated 100,000, the government issued its first warning that it might take action against protesting Buddhist monks.
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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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Muslim separatists are intensifying violence in southern Thailand in hopes of a brutal government response that would boost foreign support for their aims, Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said on Friday.
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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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BANGKOK, 9 November 2004 - A group of 144 academics upped the pressure on Thailandâs premier yesterday by releasing an open letter demanding he apologize for the deaths of 78 Muslim protesters piled on army trucks by security forces.
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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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Protesters linked to Thailand&#39;s ousted premier Thaksin Shinawatra on Sunday delivered a letter to the country&#39;s military rulers demanding that the junta resign and immediately hold elections.
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Almost 80 people died of suffocation in southern Thailand while being taken to detention at a military barracks after a violent demonstration, a justice ministry official said on Tuesday.
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A Thai official says at least 84 people have been killed in clashes between Thai security forces and Muslim protesters in the south of the country.
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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.
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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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Amnesty International has urged the Thai government to impartially investigate the deaths of at least 84 protesters in the south of the country.
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BANGKOK In a killing that threatens to stoke the violent unrest in southern Thailand, assailants beheaded a Buddhist village leader to avenge 84 Muslims who died in a crackdown by the Thai military last week.
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BANGKOK: An independent team probing the deaths of 78 Thai Muslims rounded up and piled into army trucks after a protest last week started work as the death toll mounted in the country&#39;s strife-hit south.