BANGKOK (REUTERS) - The main group fighting an insurgency in Thailand's largely Muslim south said it had held its first meeting with officials from the new Thai government and had set out demands as a condition for any formal peace talks.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
BANGKOK - The main group fighting an insurgency in Thailand's largely Muslim south said it had held its first meeting with officials from the new Thai government and had set out demands as a condition for any formal peace talks.
That could be a step towards formal talks, the officials said, while emphasising that it was very early in the process. ONGOING WAR The past contacts with the BRN never led to talks and it has continued a guerrilla war to demand independence for Yala, Pattani and Narathiwat provinces, which were part of an independent Malay sultanate before the kingdom of Siam annexed them in 1909."The root cause of our problem is colonisation, and this has never been touched upon in past talks," Fakir said.
"We will not attack beyond the three southernmost provinces because we do not want to be perceived as terrorists," Fakir said."We have our territory. Why should we venture out of it? ... Someone else must be behind it."
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