Bombings, shootings or, more recently, al-Qaeda-style beheadings now happen almost every day in Thailand's southern provinces. Bloodthirsty but strangely publicity-shy separatists attack symbols of Buddhist Thailand's rule over a region whose people are mostly Muslim and ethnic-Malay. Teachers and monks, not just soldiers and police, are targets now. Muslims are also regularly murdered, either in revenge for killings of Buddhists or because the militants suspect them of collaborating with the authorities.
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