Thai Militants Recruit School Youth to Fight

(22 June 09-RV) Militants in Thailand's deep south are using Islamic schools to recruit fighters for their terror campaign against the Thai state. Nearly 3,500 people have been killed in since 2004 in the region bordering Malaysia, which was an independent Malay Muslim sultanate until it was annexed by Buddhist Thailand a century ago. Internatinal Crisis Group’s Thai Analyst Rungrawee Chalermsripinyorat told us that the government’s reliance on the military is making it difficult for the prime minister to propose new policies.