BANGKOK: Violence in Thailand's Muslim south has little to do with the drug trade and is the work of a growing but shadowy movement that wants a separate Islamic state, a senior government adviser said yesterday after this week's mass killings of militants.
Gen Kitti Rattanchaya, the top security adviser for the south, said hundreds of fighters have been trained in Thailand and overseas and are ready to sacrifice themselves, although he declined to name countries.
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