Discussions With Southern Insurgents

[A_Traveller]

Link to an article in the Asia Times. Tentative peace talks for Thai south By Bertil Lintner

Regards

[ColPyat]

Little hope that much comes out of this. Here another article, and that is just the tip of the iceberg:

KOLOMUDO VILLAGE, Thailand -- The black-uniformed raiders roared into this Thai Muslim village, firing assault rifles and hurling grenades from a pickup truck at a group of teenagers relaxing near the mosque. When the attack was over, five of the youths lay dead.

As they have done in the past, authorities initially said the killers were Muslim insurgents terrorizing their own people in their separatist war against the Buddhist-dominated central government.

But then the official line on the village raid changed, with senior military commanders shifting suspicion to Buddhist vigilantes and heightening fears that the four-year-old conflict in Thailand's southern Muslim provinces is entering an ominous new phase.

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