Survivors of riots in southern Thailand recall ordeal

PATTANI: One of nearly 1,300 Thai Muslims arrested after clashes with security forces said yesterday that police and soldiers beat protesters and piled them up “like bricks” for a five-hour truck ride to an army camp. 

“Everyone had to lie down in the back. We were lying one on top of another with no space to breathe,” the man, a rubber tapper in his 30s, said from his hospital bed in Pattani.