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Article: A Growing Rift in Thailand's South; Insurgency Divides Muslims, Buddhists
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- May 24, 2009
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The young Muslim man says he watched helplessly as soldiers broke
his father's bones and punctured his lungs with vicious kicks. After
seven hours of relentless torture, the Muslim religious leader died
cradled in his lap.
In a nearby village, a 7-year-old Buddhist girl still dials her
father's mobile telephone number every evening. Then she readies his
bed. But her father is never coming home. He and his brother were
riddled with bullets as they motorcycled to a computer class. Their
bodies were set on fire.
A vicious Muslim insurgency in Thailand's deep south has spared
few. On the roll call of 3,400 dead are monks and teachers,
shopkeepers and rubber tappers, officials and innocents from ...