"Security forces arrested 69 suspected separatist militants in raids on homes in the troubled Muslim-majority south, police said on Sunday. More than 200 police and army rangers swept through the seven villages in Narathiwat province along the southern border with Malaysia, where they also seized shotguns, pistols, and bomb making supplies, police said.
The latest arrests followed raids on Saturday, when 13 people were arrested in Narathiwat.
Since late June, Thai forces have arrested hundreds of suspected militants and taken them to detention camps at army bases where they are questioned and often go through "re-education" programmes.
They are required to be released after 30 days unless they are charged, but could be detained again in the next security sweep.
A five-minute gunfight broke out during one of the raids, injuring two rangers, police said."
http://www.bangkokpost.com/breaking_news/b...s.php?id=121485
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Mass arrests in South
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