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...plan's thorniest issues center around the Thai government's promises to set up an independent tribunal to try army officers for alleged human rights violations and to grant amnesty to all insurgents. It's those conditions that Thailand's new military rulers are accused of dragging their feet on. "We believe the Thai government is not prepared to get high-ranking army officers who committed violence and human rights abuses against Malay Muslims to face trial," says the Malaysian negotiator. Until the government returns to the negotiating table, a solution to the south's problems could be a long...
...Even before coup leader Gen. Sondhi Boonyaratkalin called peace in the region "a top priority", hopes were high that some sort of truce could be reached. In December 2005, representatives from five Muslim insurgent groups met secretly with senior Thai military and intelligence officers in 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...
...While there has been scant public evidence of what might be causing the rift, sources close to the Langkawi negotiations say that the new Thai leadership is balking over elements of a secret peace plan drafted by the negotiators in Langkawi. Titled "A Joint Peace and Development Programme for Southern Thailand" and shown to TIME by an insurgent leader who represented his group at the talks and requested that his name not be published, the 16-page document outlines seven points of agreement reached by Thai officials and rebels during the Langkawi meeting. They include the reestablishment of the Southern...
...Even 12 health code violations—including a failure to be “vermin proof”—won’t keep Harvard students away from cheap Thai food at 9 Tastes. (“12 Health Violations? Bah! Those Nine Tastes are Delicious...
...unreliable drug delivery systems are contributory factors to the current “access gap,” high medicine prices remain a primary barrier to treatment for the destitute sick. In Thailand, for example, an 18-fold reduction in the price of HIV treatment has allowed the Thai government to expand its national treatment program from 3,000 to 85,000 individuals in the past four years...