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...explosions that have claimed nearly 2,000 lives over the past three years. But the insurgents, some of whom are fighting for a separatist homeland for the country's minority Muslims, have never brought their bombing campaign out of Thailand's south. At a press conference on Monday afternoon, interim Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont specifically discounted speculation that the terror attacks were planned by Muslim extremists, instead linking the bombs to "people who lost power...
...coup, more than a dozen public schools in Thailand's northeast have been torched; the military junta has used such acts of violence, which they link to Thaksin supporters, as justification for keeping parts of the nation under martial law. Thaksin is currently in exile in China, as the interim government investigates whether corruption charges can be brought against the billionaire ex-premier. On Monday, through his lawyer, Thaksin denied any connection to the New Year's Eve attacks...
...second Gulf War drove Saddam from Baghdad and power and into the spider hole. In the interim, his Baathist apparatus and military were dismantled. His family dispersed. His heirs, the despicable Uday and Qusay, were killed while fugitives in Iraq. Two years after his arrest, Saddam was put on trial for war crimes before the newly re-constituted Iraqi High Tribunal. In November he was convicted of genocide for ordering the executions of 148 men and boys in response to a 1982 assassination attempt in the town of Dujail. The Dujail trial introduced witnesses and an extensive document trail that...
...country and oversee the electoral commission, until the next government is chosen. This time, though, the Awami League has accused the BNP of stacking the caretaker government and the electoral commission with partisans - an accusation amplified this week when U.S. ambassador Patricia A. Butenis said that the interim body "has not always conducted itself neutrally, and the nation has suffered as a result...
...Langkawi, Malaysia to develop a peace plan for the South-a conference mediated by former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad. But now, a top member of Mahathir's mediating team tells TIME that the dialogue between the government and the rebels is at a dead end. And although Interim Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont has made several gestures of goodwill towards Thailand's southern Muslims, he has said he has no intention of meeting with the insurgent leaders. "What I'm trying to do is to talk to the majority of people," he told the Al Jazeera news network...