Thai Army Mistook Muslim Summer Courses for Terrorist Meeting

PATTANI – A commander of the Thai army admitted yesterday that a military intelligence unit had mistakenly identified a summer lesson at a Muslim school in the southern province of Pattani as a terrorist conference.

The admission came after soldiers raided the religious school, which locates in the Pattani’s office of Central Islamic Committee of Thailand (CICOT), on 14 April. A Muslim cleric told reporters that the soldiers said they received reports that 30 “terrorists” were gathering at the madras to plan new attacks against the authorities in late April, but the school was in fact hosting a lesson for Muslim students on summer vacation.

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