Violence Leaves 3 Dead, Teacher Wounded In Thai South -Police
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.
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November 24, 2008 00:54 ET (05:54 GMT)
Publié le 24 novembre 2008 Copyright © 2008 Dowjones
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