A Thai soldier looks on at the scene of a burned out school near Pattani, Thailand, Monday, April 16, 2007. The elementary school, which served mostly Thai Buddhist students, was burned in retaliation for the killing of several Muslim youths two days earlier. Two successive regimes have failed in the south with more than 40,000 troops and police unable to provide adequate security for Buddhist and moderate Muslim alike. (AP Photo/David Longstreath. AP Photo logo AP Photo 62 months ago

A Thai soldier looks on at the scene of a burned out school near Pattani, Thailand, Monday, April 16, 2007. The elementary school, which served mostly Thai Buddhist students, was burned in retaliation for the killing of several Muslim youths two days earlier. Two successive regimes have failed in the south with more than 40,000 troops and police unable to provide adequate security for Buddhist and moderate Muslim alike. (AP Photo/David Longstreath.

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