Dozens of people have been injured in a double bombing, believed to have been set off by Muslim separatists, in front of a supermarket in Thailand. The blasts happened in the southern city of Pattani in the latest attack in the predominantly Buddhist country. The latest attack happened at around 2pm local time, with two … Read more
Two militants were killed in Thailand’s violence-plagued deep south after a bomb they were transporting prematurely exploded, the military said Thursday. Their deaths came during a night of violence across a region plagued by unrest for over a decade as ethnic Malay rebels battle Thai troops for more autonomy from the Buddhist-majority state. Colonel Yutanam … Read more
The most prominent insurgent group in Thailand’s south rejected the military’s peace plan in a rare statement on Monday, underscoring Bangkok’s inability to open negotiations with the actual fighters in the conflict. The country’s southernmost border provinces, which were annexed by Thailand more than a century ago, have been plagued with violence for over a … Read more
Nearly two dozen arson and bomb attacks erupted across Thailand’s insurgency-torn south shortly after midnight, the army said Friday, causing widespread blackouts but no casualties in the Muslim-majority region. The violence, which saw tires set alight and dozens of electricity poles damaged by explosives, struck only hours after Thailand’s king Maha Vajiralongkorn signed a new … Read more
Thailand’s army said Tuesday it would drop a defamation case against three human rights workers who alleged that troops tortured insurgents, a rare climbdown by a military notorious for taking critics to court. The charges against Pornpen Khongkachonkiet — the chair of Amnesty International Thailand — Anchana Heemmina and Somchai Homlaor were widely seen as … Read more
Three Thai soldiers were gunned down in front of terrified shoppers at busy evening market in Thailand’s conflict-riddled ‘Deep South’, police said Friday, in a day of of bloodshed undermining progress in peace talks. An under-reported 13-year rebellion in the southernmost provinces by Malay Muslim insurgents against the Buddhist-majority Thai state has killed more than … Read more
Thai army and Muslim rebel peace negotiators agreed Tuesday to create a “safety zone” in Thailand’s insurgency-hit south, a small but significant step in talks to end a bloody 13-year conflict. More than 6,800 people have died in a rebellion waged by ethnic Malay militants in Buddhist-majority Thailand’s three southernmost provinces, a region known as … Read more