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Muslim terrorists murdered three farmers and wounded one as they were traveling to a rubber plantation in Yala province. Amnesty International claimed the Thai military is torturing insurgents in the South.

Jan. 4 marks the fifth year of Thailand’s southern Muslim insurgency. One policeman was killed and one was wounded in a clash with insurgents in Narathiwat province. Insurgents murdered a man and wounded his wife in a shooting Pattani province.

Two soldiers were killed in an ambush by insurgents in Narathiwat province. One soldier and two civilians were killed in separate attacks in Pattani province. Seven soldiers were wounded in a bombing as they were guarding a rail line in Yala province.

One Army officer was killed in a drive-by shooting in Pattani province. Eight soldiers were wounded in a remotely detonated bomb attack outside an office in Narathiwat province. On Dec. 20, one person was killed and seven were wounded in a bombing in Pattani, and four people were wounded in a bombing in Yala province.

Five civilians were killed and 10 civilians and two policemen were wounded, some critically, in a bombing at a gas station in the southern province of Narathiwat. Three civilians were gunned down in Pattani province and one more in Yala province.

Violence in the South is rising as the political crisis in Bangkok has diverted attention from the region. Two Muslim terrorists were killed in a shootout in YAla province. Nine Army rangers were wounded in an IED attack in Narathiwat province.

Three simultaneous bombings at a meeting place and a market in the southern province of Narathiwat killed one civilian and wounded more than 70. Muslim insurgents killed one Buddhist woman and wounded her daughter in an attack in a village in Narathiwat. The Buddhist family was the last in the village.

Three Special Forces soldiers were severely wounded after their convoy was ambushed by Islamist terrorists in Narathiwat province in the South. Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat denied the government has been negotiating with Islamist insurgents as he prepares to visit the region.