BANGKOK, April 27 – The Thai government has initiated proactive strategies to deal with the violence in the country’s three southern boder provinces and it is closely monitoring the situation as Saturday marks the eighth anniversary of the Krue Se incident, Deputy Prime Minister Yuthasak Sasiprapha said on Friday.

Gen Yuthasak made his remarks in response to concerns of possible violence tomorrow, the eighth anniversary of the April 28, 2004 Krue Se incident in which 32 people were killed in clashes between authorities and suspected insurgents at a Narathiwat mosque.

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