Word: vuttichai
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...last attempt at a peaceful solution before taking action?one of Narathiwat's most senior Islamic figures, Abdulrazak Ali, arrived to mediate. "They wouldn't listen to me," says Abdulrazak, a cleric. "There were a few radicals among the protesters, controlling the minds of everyone else." Deputy police commander Vuttichai Hanhaboon, a Buddhist who has spent 10 years in the south, watched the events unfold from his perch on the second-floor balcony of the station. "I looked down on the crowd and thought, 'How many years will it take before these Muslims grow up?' I knew people would...
...ground. Thai TV footage of the event shows soldiers kicking and beating the men. Several of the women told TIME that the men were forced to lie on the ground for more than an hour. No one offered them water. "It's [the Muslim fasting month of] Ramadan," says Vuttichai. "They wouldn't have accepted it anyway." The TV coverage did not show what happened next. Soldiers began loading the men into trucks. Many of the men could not climb up themselves, so they were tossed in, and instructed to lie flat. Then soldiers started stacking the mostly inert bodies...
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