Violence Leaves 3 Dead, Teacher Wounded In Thai South -Police
Monday November 24th, 2008 / 6h54
YALA, Thailand (AFP)--Suspected separatist militants shot dead three people and seriously wounded a teacher in attacks throughout Thailand's insurgency-hit far south, police said Monday. On Sunday a 28-year-old man was killed in Yala province and a 42-year-old man shot dead in Pattani province, while suspected militants also killed a 49-year-old village chief in a drive-by shooting in Narathiwat province. A 29-year-old teacher was shot and seriously wounded on his way to school in Pattani early Monday, local police said. Schools and teachers are frequent targets of attacks in the far south because militants see the education system as an effort by Bangkok to impose predominantly Buddhist Thai culture on a region that is mostly Muslim and ethnic Malay. More than 3,500 people have been killed since separatist unrest erupted almost five years ago in the far southern region. Tensions have simmered since Thailand annexed the area, which was a Malay sultanate, in 1902. Click here to go to Dow Jones NewsPlus, a web front page of today's most important business and market news, analysis and commentary: http://www.djnewsplus.com/al?rnd=XArlKZdU3IpnWbzCSPbKCA%3D%3D. You can use this link on the day this article is published and the following day.
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