Hundreds of Thai schools shut over militant attacks
- Published: 26 Nov 2012 at 22.47
- Online news: Security
Teachers in insurgency-wracked southern Thailand decided Monday to suspend classes at hundreds of schools in the region over the killings of education workers by Muslim militants.
Thai soldiers listen to orders before patroling the streets of Narathiwat in southern Thailand early on November 16. Teachers in insurgency-wracked southern Thailand decided Monday to suspend classes at hundreds of schools in the region over the killings of education workers by Muslim militants.
"We want to put pressure on security forces and the government to take greater care of our safety," Boonsom Thongsriply, chairman of the teachers' association in the region, told AFP.
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