Seven people have been shot dead thsi week in escalating attacks in Thailand’s south, police said as the government stepped back from a controversial scheme to deny funding to Muslim villages seen as supporting insurgents. The seven were killed since Tuesday in the mainly Buddhist kingdom’s three southernmost Muslim-majority provinces, where an insurgency blamed on Islamic separatists erupted a year ago. Violence has surged since Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra’s overwhelming re-election on February 6, and took a frightening new turn last week when insurgents detonated their first car bomb just hours after the premier ended a tour of the region. Full Story
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