Thursday, May 03, 2007

What are Thai Jihadis Doing to Improve Education?...

Burning down 166 or 15% of the schools in southern Thailand...

Extremists have burnt 166 schools

Yala (TNA) - Insurgents have burned 166 southern schools since the separatist rebellion flared again in January, 2004, according to a senior education ministry official.

Pradit Rasitanon, director of the Inspector-General's Office of the Ministry of Education, said on Wednesday that between Jan 4, 2004 and Monday (April 30), 166 schools in the three southern provinces of Yala, Pattani and Narathiwat and some parts of nearby Songkhla province were burned.

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