BANGKOK: A former senior leader of the defunct Communist Party of Malaya (CPM), Rashid Maidin, died in southern Thailand yesterday. He was 89.
A Thai military spokesman said Rashid died at about 9am at his daughters home in Sisakoin, Narathiwat, and was buried after Friday prayers.
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