Peace Doves Dropped on South Thailand
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PATTANI, Thailand, December 5 (IslamOnline.net &amp; News Agencies) - A fleet of military and civil aircraft and helicopters dropped Sunday, December 5, some 120 million paper birds across Thailandâs troubled Muslim-majority south, described by activists as
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PATTANI, Thailand  - Bomb blasts rocked southern  Thailand on Friday hours before Prime Minister Thaksin  Shinawatra was to address the nation as he faces his worst  crisis following the deaths of 85 Muslim protesters.
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THAI army helicopters with loudspeakers hovered over remote jungle peaks in the south of the country yesterday, coaxing those who had fled Sundayâs massive tidal wave to come down to safety.
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In southern Thailand where unemployment is high, thousands of people have been spending the past couple of weeks collecting paper cranes fired at their villages and towns from the air.
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BANGKOK, Thailand -- Buddhists in Thailand have implored Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra to end violence targeting them on an almost daily basis in the south of the country.
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A bomb outside a bank in southern Thailand has killed two people and wounded several others. Police say the bomb went off at a Siam Commercial Bank branch in Sungai Kolok, a town in Narathiwat province on the border with Malaysia.
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NARATHIWAT, Thailand  - Two small bombs exploded  in Thailand's largely Muslim south on Wednesday, wounding six  people hours before Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra began a  three-day visit to the region, police said. All six of the  wounded were hurt by a bomb that went off near a branch of  state-owned Krung Thai Bank in the Ra-Ngae district of  Narathiwat province, police said. The other exploded in a  rubber plantation in nearby Ruesoh district.
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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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Up to five people have died and at least 20 injured after security forces in southern Thailand fired shots in the air and used water cannons and tear gas to disperse protestors.
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Pope John Paul II shooed a dove &#151; a symbol of peace &#151; out his apartment window Sunday, chuckling with children who watched in delight as the bird flew back into his room overlooking St. Peter's Square.
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Two bombs have rocked southern Thailand on Friday, wounding at least 20 people, as Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra vowed there would be no cover up over the deaths of at least 85 Muslim detainees in the volatile region.
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A massive airdrop of paper birds intended to promote peace failed to halt violence in Thailand&#39;s restive south, with a spate of new attacks Monday that targeted soldiers and local officials.
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More bombs hit Thailand's largely  Muslim south on Saturday, killing a shopper in a mainly  Buddhist town and wounding 14 as Prime Minister Thaksin  Shinawatra vowed to resolve the crisis.
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Thailand&#39;s King Bhumibol Adulyadej has appealed for police and military to work together to restore peace in the Muslim-majority south of the country.
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A Buddhist monk walks past Thai soldiers on their vehicles at a temple in Pattani provine, southern Thailand. The three Muslim-majority southern provinces in predominantly Buddhist Thailand have been hit by a wave of violence.
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Fresh violence flared in mainly Muslim southern Thailand on Monday, only hours after the Air Force dropped an estimated 100 million origami &quot;peace birds&quot; to quell unrest which has claimed nearly 500 lives.
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Around 50 Thai Air Force planes have taken took off to &quot;bomb&quot; the largely Muslim southern with paper birds as a symbol of peace for the restive region where