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Buddhist beheaded in Thai south A 72-year-old Buddhist rice miller was beheaded in Thailand's rebellious Muslim south on Thursday in an apparent retaliation for a bomb attack on a village tea shop owned by Muslims, police said. The man's head was not found and police said they found severe cuts on his fingers, hands and shoulder at his village mill in Pattani, one of the three largely Muslim provinces where 2,000 have been killed in three years of separatist insurgency. It was the third decapitation this year. "This is revenge for what happened last night in Nakohn Nua," a message left at the mill said in reference to the village where the bomb went off, injuring no one, police said. Nobody has claimed responsibility for the violence which has seen almost daily gun and bomb attacks in the former sultanate annexed by Buddhist Thailand a century ago. Although the military-appointed government has embarked on a peace drive in the Malay-speaking region since it was appointed after a September coup ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, the violence continues. |
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