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...furious. They killed my men. If I could, I would drop napalm bombs all over that village." TRAIKWAN KRAIRIKSH, Thai marine captain, on the fate of two soldiers abducted and beaten to death by Muslim separatists in the country's southern Narathiwat province last week...
...killed in front of her and immediately began to run, like the rest of the crowd, to the river, where they took shelter behind the embankment. Some began swimming out to boats, which had come close to the banks, says Ai, to rescue the demonstrators. Traikwan Kraireuk, Narathiwat's military chief, told TIME the boats were manned by heavily armed insurgents. "It's not true," says Ai, as do other protesters TIME spoke to. "They were just trying to pull people out of the water. And the soldiers shot at them to keep the boats away...
...Narathiwat military chief Traikwan was inside the station and claims not to have known what was unfolding outside. "I was not aware," he says. "I did not know my soldiers piled up those captured. This may have been a mistake, but you must understand we had limited trucks and there were a lot of men arrested. Also, if they were normal people?and not fasting or on drugs, as I suspect many of them were?they would probably not have died." The men were taken to the military base at Pattani 150 km away. By the time the convoy arrived...
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