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Amnesty's 64-page report "Unlawful Killings in Thailand's Southern Insurgency" was based on extensive interviews with victims of violence in the four southernmost provinces. The soft targets include "farmers, house workers, teachers, students, religious leaders, monks, civil servants or persons with vague or tenuous affiliation with the security forces or counterinsurgency efforts." "Insurgents in southern Thailand are spreading terror among the civilian population by deliberately targeting people with no role in the conflict and no one is immune from attack," Donna Guest, Amnesty International's Asia-Pacific Deputy director, said at the time. "The insurgents must publicly commit to stopping these unlawful killings immediately." The report is based on the testimony of 154 interviews with witnesses and survivors, relatives and friends of victims, conducted between October 2010 and July 2011. The testimonies describe 66 insurgent attacks against civilians in three southern Thai districts: Rangae in Narathiwat province, Yarang in Pattani and Yaha in Yala. Killings also have been noted in parts of neighboring Songkhla province. "Amnesty International calls on the insurgents to immediately cease attacks deliberately targeting civilians, indiscriminate attacks and other violations of international humanitarian law, many of which constitute war crimes," the report said.
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