The Bloody War for Southern Thailand
Each morning, Buddhist monks wrap themselves in saffron-colored robes and silently stroll, collecting alms in Thailand's three southern provinces while a phalanx of troops armed with assault rifles walk alongside, protecting them from Islamist assassins.
Buddhist and anti-separatist Muslim teachers suffer a similar deadly fate in the south, despite milit…
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