November 26, 2004

Thai Prime Minister Takes Scholars' Suggestions to Resolve Conflict in the South

By MARTHA ANN OVERLAND

In a surprisingly conciliatory move, the Thai government has agreed to carry out most of the proposals by a group of academics who have urged the use of nonviolent means to end a conflict in Thailand's southern provinces.

During a meeting with professors angered by the recent deaths of dozens of antigovernment protesters in the south, Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said the military would no longer be used to quell demonstrations. Mr. Thaksin also said that human-rights abuses would

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