| | Boston.com / News / World / Asia / Separatism Not Behind Thai Uprising--Prime Minister (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-07) |
 | | Muslim separatism was not driving the unprecedented violence in southern Thailand, Prime Minister Thaksin Shiniwatra said Saturday, but local media reported the military is looking into its links with regional militant groups. |
 | | BANGKOK (Reuters) - Muslim separatism was not driving the unprecedented violence in southern Thailand, Prime Minister Thaksin Shiniwatra said Saturday, but local media reported the military is looking into its links with regional militant groups. |
 | | Smugglers and drug traffickers have tried to build networks by using impressionable youth, and the ideology of separatism was just a cover for their criminal activities, Thaksin said. |
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