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Thailand's Muslim Separatists Wage a Much-Ignored War
(Daily Star-Lebanon) Duncan McCargo - According to counter-insurgency expert David Kilcullen, Muslim violence against Buddhists in Thailand's southern provinces has now claimed more than 3,500 lives. Yet the Thai military's belief that Malay Muslims could be re-educated and re-socialized into accepting a Thai identity has proved untenable. The writer is a professor of Southeast Asian politics at the University of Leeds.