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Malaysia's facilitator said Wednesday that the Thai government and Muslim separatist rebels in southern Thailand have agreed in principle on a roadmap to try to end a decades-long Muslim insurgency.
Thailand: Bangkok: 9 – 10 February He met with Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha in Bangkok. They discussed about the Muslim separatist insurgency in Thailand’s southernmost provinces, which abut Malaysia. They also discussed bilateral issues with the intention of alleviating the bilateral relationship between the two countries. 5 Turkey
23 May - Attackers in southern Thailand fatally shot two army rangers at close range Tuesday, police said, the latest killings in a region that has been plagued by a long-running Muslim separatist insurgency. [216] 19 June - Six soldiers were killed and four wounded when a bomb planted on a dirt road in Pattani province exploded. [217]
It originated in 1948 [58] as an ethnic and religious separatist insurgency in the historical Malay Patani Region, made up of the three southernmost provinces of Thailand and parts of a fourth, but has become more complex and increasingly violent since the early 2000s from drug cartels, [59] [60] oil smuggling networks, [31] [61] and sometimes ...
"Thailand needs to solve its problems through the rule of law and the people exercising their right to choose their own leaders." [193] The Thailand Union for Civil Liberty was also critical of the coup. In a formal statement, it noted that the coup was destructive to the democratic system and would result in serious human rights infractions.
6. Thailand wishes to reduce the role of the Patani United Liberation Organisation (PULO) and Revolutionary National Front (BRN) while at the same time giving credit to the RKK (small and mobile combat units). However, the RKK is not an organisation, but small groups moving in the villages which are part of other liberation organisations in Patani.
Thailand's Pheu Thai party announced on Wednesday it had the support of six more parties in its attempt to form a government, still short of the required backing nearly three months after an election.
The Thai government and Muslim separatists from the southern part of the country agree on a possible peace process to stop an insurrection which started in 2004. [ 22 ] Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet visits Thailand to sign several documents on further cooperation between Cambodia and Thailand.