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Violence in Thailand’s Muslim South Intensifies – VOA Story
Jan 21st
In Thailand’s Muslim-dominated south, an increasingly violent insurgency is breeding fear and mistrust among neighbors, and government efforts to bring peace have made little progress. More than 2000 people have died since a Muslim insurgency flared up in 2004 in Thailand’s Muslim-majority southern provinces of Pattani, Yala, and Narathiwat. While the majority of Thailand’s 65 million people are Buddhists, around 1.3 million ethnic Malay Muslims live in the south. Most identify more with …
Armen Kassabian: We are all Muslims, Jews, Christians and Buddhists
Nov 30th
Suffi Muslims remind me of the ascetic Buddhist tradition of dhanga, or “wandering monks” practiced in Thailand . A Theravada Buddhist country, where monks move from village to village, begging for food as the Buddha did once a day, …
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Armen Kassabian: We are all Muslims, Jews, Christians and Buddhists
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Nov 29th
I was there to study the conflict between Thai Muslims and the monarchist/ Buddhist Thai state along the Malaysia border, and to suggest ways the US government could support media and civil society in forging peaceful solutions. …
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