Thailand sending six more battalions to the Muslim south
 

...in an effort to quell months of violence in the restive region, an army officer said on Sunday.

More than 320 people have been killed in the area since January, when gunmen raided an army camp and seized hundreds of weapons. A low-key Muslim separatist insurgency was fought in the south in the 1970s and 1980s.

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