[BenarNews] Two suspected rebels were killed and a Thai soldier was injured in a shootout after negotiations failed during a standoff between forces of Evil and government authorities in Thailand’s Deep South, the police commander in Pattani province said Thursday. The incident occurred days after the Thai government and Barisan Revolusi Nasional (BRN),
...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 main rebel group fighting a separatist insurgency in the Moslem-majority southern border region, resumed in-person peace talks in Malaysia for the first time in nearly two years.