Thailand drops paper birds on Muslim south
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PANARE, Thailand - Around 50 Thai Air Force planes âbombedâ the largely Muslim southern with paper birds on Sunday as a symbol of peace for the restive region where nearly 500 people have been killed since January.
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Thailandâs government has come under harsh attack from media, politicians, activists and ordinary citizens for the deaths of 78 Muslim protesters in custody, with many saying authorities are making matters worse in the volatile, Muslim-majority south.
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Fresh violence has flared in mainly Muslim southern Thailand, only hours after the air force dropped an estimated 100 million origami peace birds in the area to quell unrest which has claimed nearly 500 lives.
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PATTANI, Thailand : At least 84 Thai Muslims died -- mainly from suffocation in the back of security force trucks -- after police and troops broke up a violent demonstration in the kingdom&#39;s troubled south, Thai officials said.
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The violent rebellion in Thailand&#39;s three southernmost Muslim-dominated provinces is not improving and leaves the civilian population increasingly exposed to killings, Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said.
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PATTANI, Thailand  - Bomb blasts rocked southern  Thailand Friday as Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra told  southern Muslim leaders the deaths of 85 protesters in military  custody should have never happened.
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In southern Thailand where unemployment is high, thousands of people have been spending the past couple of weeks collecting paper cranes fired at their villages and towns from the air.
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Thailand&#39;s troubled south has been hit by fresh violence, just hours after army planes dropped 100m origami birds as a peace offering.
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Seven people have been killed in Thailand's Muslim-majority south, police said, despite the post-coup government's promise to boost the local economy in hopes of ending three years of unrest.
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HAT YAI, THAILAND - The Thai air force launched one of its biggest military operations in recent history on Sunday, dispatching 51 aircraft to drop 97 million origami paper cranes on Thailandâs troubled deep south to bring peace to the region.
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Hundreds of Muslim men have been freed in southern Thailand but many others face prosecution after they were detained in a protest, which left 85 dead and outraged Muslims worldwide.
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BANGKOK, Thailand -- A coordinated string of at least 29 bomb blasts in Thailand's largely Muslim south may have been timed for the start of Lunar New Year festivities and intended to frighten ethnic Chinese traders as part of a campaign to damage the economy, a military spokesman said this week.
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PATTANI, Thailand  - Bomb blasts rocked southern  Thailand on Friday as Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra told  southern Muslim leaders the deaths of 85 protesters in military  custody should have never happened.
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About 120 million origami birds were air-dropped over southern Thailand yesterday in an attempt to quell a Muslim insurgency that has led to the deaths of more than 500 people this year.
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UBON RATCHATHANI, Thailand  - Thai Muslims who  have studied Islam abroad, not foreign militant groups, are  behind the spate of bloody violence in the far south, Prime  Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said Tuesday.
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A Buddhist monk walks past Thai soldiers on their vehicles at a temple in Pattani provine, southern Thailand. The three Muslim-majority southern provinces in predominantly Buddhist Thailand have been hit by a wave of violence.
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Thai military and civilian aircraft rained 120 million paper doves down on Muslim southern provinces in a goodwill gesture, as Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra tries to ease violence that has killed 400 people.