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...last Thursday the 23-year-old civil servant from the district of Tak Bai in Thailand's southern Narathiwat province volunteered to act as a coffin-bearer at a funeral for 22 men. They were among 85 killed when what started as a peaceful protest outside the local police station went horribly wrong. Now, three days later, as rifle-toting soldiers stood watch, the shrouded bodies were first laid out under the hot sun on a field next to the 380-year-old ironwood Wadi al-Hussein mosque. Prayers were said. Then, amid the pervasive stink of decay, the bodies...
...story of those who died in Tak Bai began on Monday, Oct. 25, a sultry day with the promise of rain in the air. That morning, about 2,000 Muslim villagers?men, women and children?gathered in a small park across the road from the police station. They had come to demand freedom for six men arrested for allegedly providing arms to Islamic separatist fighters. But the authorities were in no mood to oblige. In the station courtyard stood hundreds of heavily armed police and soldiers brought in to deal with the protest, their weapons drawn. At either...
...wore on, the police tried repeatedly to negotiate with the demonstrators. They told them the men had been moved to another station and were in good health, and that their case would be decided by the courts. The protesters were not appeased, so at 2:15 p.m. the south's military commander, General Pisarn Wattanawongkeeree, emerged from the station and ordered the crowd to disperse. Shortly after?in what proved to be the military's last attempt at a peaceful solution before taking action?one of Narathiwat's most senior Islamic figures, Abdulrazak Ali, arrived to mediate. "They wouldn...
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