Deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwan will send officers to speak to a Bangkok-based monk over his alleged Facebook posts that called for people to take revenge for the deaths of Buddhist monks in the deep South.

Prawit, also the defence minister, said the officers would speak to Phra Maha Apichat Punnajantho of Wat Benchamabophit Dusitvanaram to “clarify for a better understanding”.

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