Muslims in Thai south mark 15 years since ‘Tak Bai massacre’

Tak Bai (Thailand): Muslims in the conflict-blistered Thai south marked with prayers the 15th anniversary of the deaths of scores of protesters who suffocated in army trucks, an incident that galvanised an insurgency and remains an emblem of state impunity.

Known across Thailand’s “deep-south” as the “Tak Bai massacre”, the Oct 25, 2004, incident remains one of the deadliest days in the rebellion by Malay-Muslims against rule by the Thai state, which colonised the provinces bordering Malaysia over a century ago.