IN THE DANGER ZONE  A member of Thailand’s special police force mans his post at a checkpoint in the country’s restive southern province of Narathiwat on Tuesday. Thai authorities have distributed hundreds of assault rifles to village volunteers in the insurgency-battered south. AFP PHOTO
IN THE DANGER ZONE
A member of Thailand’s special police force mans his post at a checkpoint in the country’s restive southern province of Narathiwat on Tuesday. Thai authorities have distributed hundreds of assault rifles to village volunteers in the insurgency-battered south. AFP PHOTO

BANGKOK: Thai authorities have distributed hundreds of assault rifles to village volunteers in the insurgency-battered south, in a move seemingly at odds with a pledge to find peace to a decade-long conflict within a year.

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