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Beheadings Raise Tensions in Thailand

Customers no longer come to Kaboh Sulong’s teashop — not since two gunmen walked in at noon, coldly shot a Buddhist cloth vendor, cut off his head and left it in a sack outside. Ten days later Sulong was still terrified as he pointed to a wooden table where Lek Pongpla was relaxing when the attackers killed him. And all around him, Buddhists were packing and fleeing the worsening violence in Thailand’s Muslim-majority south. Full Story