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...governments must also take aim at the ideological wellsprings of terrorism. Regional governments and institutions can work together with the Muslim community and religious leaders to marginalize the radicals' message. Furthermore, they must seek to resolve existing and emerging regional conflicts, such as those in southern Philippines and southern Thailand. So long as such conflicts persist, with the perception that Muslims are suffering persecution, existing and new radical groups will find it easy to recruit members. For the governments of Southeast Asia, there is no agenda item so important as finding a healing balm for long-festering sores...
...summit was preceded by some rare fireworks. The group has a decades-old policy of "nonintervention" in each other's affairs. Last week, Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra threatened to walk out of the meetings if anyone tried to discuss his country's problem with Muslim insurgents in Thailand's south. "If there is any attempt to raise the issue," he told reporters, "I will fly straight home." Burma's Soe Win may have been hoping that the prisoner release would prevent awkward discussions on the fate of Suu Kyi and her supporters. According to opposition groups, only...
...soldiers shot dead six Muslim protesters in nearby Tak Bai, and another 79 perished on military trucks ferrying them to an army camp. Since then more than 30 people have been killed by unknown attackers in what Buddhists fear is an escalating campaign to drive them from southern Thailand. In response, Buddhists are arming themselves?and not just in the villages. Every Sunday a Thai businessman drives his armor-plated car to a navy firing range outside Narathiwat town, where he and other local Buddhists practice how to shoot. While a bank manager and a bookshop owner blast away with...
...decades it has been the Muslims of southern Thailand?one of the country's poorest regions?who have felt marginalized and persecuted. Although they form the majority here, they own less than 30% of the region's businesses. Unemployment forces tens of thousands of men across the border to work in Malaysia's rubber and fishing industries, despite a Thai government affirmative-action program to boost Muslim numbers in certain professions. Allegations of abduction, torture and other abuses by elements of Thai security forces have fueled Muslim resentment. Some analysts believe that unidentified Islamic separatists, inspired by the global jihad...
...solve the problems by peaceful means," said Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra in a recent radio address. "But some people still use violent ways, so we have to use both ways." The name Narathiwat means "the residence of good people," notes a local tourist brochure. The good people of southern Thailand?Buddhists and Muslims alike?wait with growing desperation for protection from...