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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 ...
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.
14 May: Separatist insurgents shot dead a Thai-Buddhist couple working as fruit pickers in the majority-Muslim area of Bannang Sata, Yala Province and injured their three-year-old daughter. After gunning down Praphan Ponlarak, 36, and his wife Chaddakan, the assailants decapitated Praphan, making him the 29th victim to be beheaded in Thailand's ...
The Tak Bai incident (Thai: กรณีตากใบ), also known as the Tak Bai massacre, was the mass death of 85 Malay Muslims in Thailand's Narathiwat province on 25 October 2004. The incident occurred as part of the South Thailand insurgency between the Thai government and Malay Muslim separatists.
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.
Sudarat Keyuraphan, the main prime ministerial candidate of the Pheu Thai party ousted by the 2014 army coup, said the seven parties in the opposition alliance would take at least 255 seats in the ...
The Patani United Liberation Organisation (Malay: Pertubuhan Pembebasan Bersatu Patani, Thai: องค์กรปลดปล่อยปัตตานีแห่งสหพันธรัฐ abbreviated PULO) is a separatist insurgent group in Thailand, calling for an independent Patani.
The three bombs caused around 118 injuries and six deaths in the heavily populated area. [1] Four people died at the scene and two more people died later. [2] [3] Phonphanit was the sixth death. [1] Four Malaysians died and two Thai citizens. [1] Thai soldiers interrogated two suspects seen on videotapes and placed by eyewitnesses. [2] [10]