தாய்லாந்தில் தெற்கு ஹாய்யாய் மாகாணத்தில் குண்டுவெடிப்பில் 9 பேர் படுகாயமடைந்தனர். இதுவும் ஒரு முஸ்லீம் தீவிரவாதிகளது வெடிகுண்டு வெடிப்பு என்று போலீஸார் கூறுகிறார்கள்.
தாய்லாந்து தெற்கில் இருக்கும் பௌத்தர்களை விரட்டி இன சுத்திகரிப்பு செய்து முஸ்லீம் பெரும்பான்மை மாநிலமாக ஆக்க, அங்கிருக்கும் முஸ்லீம் சிறுபான்மையினர் கலவரத்தை உருவாக்கி வருகிறார்கள்.
Bombs hit southern Thai city, nine wounded
27 May 2007 16:08:21 GMT
Source: Reuters
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BANGKOK, May 27 (Reuters) - Seven small bombs wounded at least nine people in the southern Thai city of Hai Yai on Sunday in an attack resembling ones carried out by Muslim separatists, police said.
Army-commander-in-chief General Sonthi Boonyaratglin declined to say immediately if separatists were responsible for the attacks, but said the bombs, all the size of soda cans, were aimed at causing chaos rather than major damage.
"The bombs weren't meant to destroy or sabotage, but just to wreak havoc," Sonthi, the leader of the bloodless coup which ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra last year, told TITV television.
One of the wounded was in serious condition after the bombs hit two department stores, two hotels, a restaurant, a Chinese shrine and a pharmacy in the city, the centre of the rubber trade in Thailand, the world's biggest producer, police said.
Muslim insurgents have hit several cities in the far south, an independent sultanate until annexed by overwhelmingly Buddhist Thailand a century ago, with a series of small bombs designed to cause chaos rather than mass deaths.
More than 2,100 people have been killed in the latest insurgency in the region, where most people speak a Malay dialect, since it erupted in January 2004.
The latest was a soldier killed in an ambush in Yala province on Sunday morning. Four of his colleagues were wounded in a firefight with insurgents who ambushed their patrol, police said.
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