The panel at right gives available details of terrorist incidents reported from southern Thailand since last October 25 when 85 Muslim youths arrested by Thai security forces during a demonstration outside a police station died due to suffocation while they and many others were being transported to their place of intended detention. The details show that despite stepped-up counter-terrorism measures taken by the Thai authorities, the organization or organizations responsible for the incidents have managed to maintain a continuous series of attacks at regular intervals, without, however, causing any mass casualties. The terrorists have been following a modus operandi of targeted killings of Buddhist civilians, many of them monks and teachers, policemen and other members of the security forces involved in counter-terrorism duties, as well as attempts at indiscriminate killings of civilians through the use of explosive devices. Full Story
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