via Khmer NZ News Media
From correspondents in Bangkok From: AFP June 13, 2010
SUSPECTED insurgents killed five people and wounded 24 in a bloody day of bombings and shootings in Thailand's troubled south, police said today.
Militants threw two homemade grenades into busy eateries late yesterday, killing a 35-year-old Buddhist man and injuring another 24.
On the same day, four Muslim men were killed in shooting incidents across the restive southern provinces of Yala, Narathiwat and Pattani.
More than 4100 people - both Buddhists and Muslims - have died during a six-year anti-government insurgency across the south, led by a shadowy mix of Islamist and separatist militants who never publicly state their goals.
The Muslim-majority region was an autonomous Malay Muslim sultanate until it was annexed in 1902 by mainly Buddhist Thailand and tensions have simmered there ever since, flaring up into the current insurgency in January 2004.
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