Four Buddhists massacred in Narathiwat

Four Buddhist villagers were slain by muslim insurgents who raided their village Saturday night. The attack against the Buddhists’ houses in Hutaeyuloh village in Tambon Bareh in Bacho distict happened at 8 pm. The insurgents attacked three houses and killed the residents before setting the houses on fire. The four were identified as Charoensilp Boonthong, […]

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Blast injures 3 soldiers in Thailand

Three soldiers have been injured when an improvised bomb went off as the troops were leaving their outpost in Thailand’s southern province of Narathiwat. A 5-kilogram bomb planted under a small pile of sand exploded on Friday morning in front of the soldiers’ outpost in the Bacho district of Narathiwat town as an eight-man patrol […]

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Teachers in Thailand’s southern provinces to meet Prime Minister Abhisit on security measures

BANGKOK, Sept 13 — Representatives of Thailand’s teachers federations in the three southern border provinces of Yala, Pattani and Narathiwat will meet Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva at Government House in the capital on Monday to discuss solutions for ending the ongoing violence and attacks on teachers. The meeting came after two Narathiwat teachers were shot […]

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Rights group urges school security in south Thailand

BANGKOK: A leading rights group on Saturday denounced suspected insurgent attacks that have disrupted education in Thailand’s violent south and warned against unlawful revenge by security forces. Human Rights Watch (HRW) urged the government to ensure the safety of schools after two teachers were killed in Narathiwat province on Tuesday, which sparked the suspension of […]

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Muslim Terrorists Spark Violence in Thailand

In Thailand’s restive Muslim south, six people have been killed and five wounded in the most recent upsurge in violence blamed on separatist militants. Reuters reports that, “the attacks, which involved drive-by shootings and bombings, took place late on Monday and on Tuesday and targeted both Muslims and the region’s minority Buddhists.” A Buddhist couple, […]

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