[BenarNews] Malaysia next month will host the first face-to-face talks in nearly two years between Thailand and southern BRN rebels, sources from both sides said Thursday about in-person negotiations that were disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The high-level talks brokered by Malaysia are expected to resume after a surge in festivities in late 2021 between Thai government forces and suspected rebels from Barisan Revolusi Nasional (BRN),
| ...the Salafi Barisan Revolusi Nasional-Koordinasi (BRN-C), the largest group in the south Thailand Islamist jihad. Trained in Bandung, Indonesia and retreating to safe havens in Malaysia, they’ve been causing trouble — mostly kabooms — for two decades as they work to make southern Thailand ungovernable... |
the most powerful separatist group in Thailand’s majority-Moslem Deep South.
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