Thai local official beheaded in revenge for deaths of 85 Muslims
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A local Buddhist official was beheaded by suspected Muslim insurgents as revenge for the deaths of 85 rioters in Thailand&#39;s mainly Muslim south last week, police said Tuesday.
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POLICE were searching today for the body of a local official who was beheaded by suspected Muslim insurgents as revenge for the deaths of 85 rioters in southern Thailand last week, officials said.
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Thailand&#39;s prime minister announced yesterday that hundreds of Muslims detained after a riot in the country&#39;s restive south would be freed, in a bid to ease tensions over the deaths of 85 accused rioters - including 78 who died in military custody.
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A VILLAGE chief in southern Thailand was beheaded in retaliation for the death last week of more than 80 Muslims involved in a protest.
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Thailand - Unknown assailants on Tuesday beheaded a 60-year-old Buddhist plantation worker in the southern province of Narathiwat in an act of revenge for 87 Muslims slain in a government crackdown there in October.
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BANGKOK Muslim insurgents were suspected of killing a soldier in an attack on troops protecting Buddhist monks Friday, and Thailand&#39;s prime minister accused the militants of trying to provoke harsh crackdowns to gain sympathy abroad.
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Thailand&#39;s prime minister has apologized for the deaths of 78 Muslims while in custody following a demonstration in the south of the nation.
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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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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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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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Six more people have been killed in Muslim-majority southern Thailand in the last 24 hours, police said on Thursday, amid outrage over the death last week of 85 Muslims, most of them in military custody.
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A militant group in Thailand has threatened to attack the capital of Bangkok to avenge the deaths of some 80 Muslims in the country&#39;s southern region.
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Suspected Muslim insurgents opened fire on nine Buddhists who were riding in a commuter van in Thailand's restive south Wednesday, killing all of them execution-style, police said.
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Suspected Muslim militants have beheaded a Buddhist village leader in southern Thailand in revenge for the deaths of 85 protesters last week and left the head and trunk two km (mile) apart, officials say.
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The Thai authorities say they are to release 900 people detained six days ago during a protest in the south of the country in which 85 Muslims died.
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A Buddhist village chief was beheaded in Thailand&#39;s Narathiwat province yesterday in an apparent revenge killing, a week after 78 Muslim protesters were crushed to death en route to a military detention centre.
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A second Buddhist man is beheaded in Thailand's south in apparent revenge for the deaths of Muslim protesters.