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Article: Behind the Muslim 'insurgency' Thailand
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- International Herald Tribune
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- December 17, 2004
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David Fullbrook
International Herald Tribune
12-17-2004
Inundated with reports of violence in largely government-controlled media, most Thais genuinely believe that the bloodshed in the country's three Muslim-majority southern provinces is the work of Muslim separatists or fanatics, as the police and officials claim. Reports in the Western media, too, state as a fact that separatist violence has taken the lives of 550 people in southern Thailand since the beginning of this year.But without denying a rise in the level of Muslim anger and the real influence of a few firebrand imams, there are good reasons to doubt these numbers and their implications for what is going on here.About 200 of ...