BANGKOK: The head of Nahdlatul Ulama, the world's largest Islamic group, began a mission here yesterday that Thailand hopes will help ease tensions in the Muslim-majority south where an insurgency is raging.
The Indonesia-based Ulama's chairman Hasyim Muzadi, leading a five-member team here, met Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra early yesterday to discuss the conflict that has claimed more than 630 lives since January last year.
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