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Over 6,500 people died and almost 12,000 were injured between 2004 and 2015 in a formerly ethnic separatist insurgency, which has currently been taken over by hard-line jihadis and pitted them against both the Thai-speaking Buddhist minority and local Muslims who have a moderate approach or who support the Thai government.
The Islamic Liberation Front of Patani (Malay: Barisan Islam Pembebasan Patani, abbreviated BIPP), until 1986 known as the National Liberation Front of Patani (NLFP; Malay: Barisan Nasional Pembebasan Patani, BNPP; also translated as "Patani National Liberation Front" or "National Front for the Liberation of Pattani"; Thai: ขบวนการแนวร่วมปลดแอก ...
The PULO, along with others, is currently fighting for the independence of Thailand's predominantly Malay Muslim south. PULO's platform is highlighted by its Islamic nationalist goals, calling the Thai presence in Pattani "a colonisation" and an "illegal occupation." Its stated aims are to secede from Thailand through military and political ...
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.
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]
Bersatu (Malay for "Unity" or "Solidarity" [2]), also referred to as the Patani Malays People's Consultative Council (Malay: Majelis Permesyuaratan Rakyat Melayu Patani, MPRMP) [2] was an umbrella group of separatist organisations of the predominantly Muslim and Malay provinces of Southern Thailand ("Patani"). [3]
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Main area of operation of the BRN. The Barisan Revolusi Nasional Melayu Patani, [1] [2] also known by the shorter form Barisan Revolusi Nasional (BRN; English: Patani Malays (or Malayu) National Revolutionary Front)), meaning "National Revolutionary Front", is an Islamist Patani independence movement in northern Malaysia (Perlis, Kedah and Kelantan) and Patani, southern Thailand.