Where OIC was correct

EDITORIAL

Published: 3 Dec 2012 at 00.00
Newspaper section: News

The foreign ministers of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) stirred a hurt reaction from the government because of their comments last week about events in the deep South.

Successive governments have for years tried to keep Thailand off the agenda at OIC meetings. This year they failed, and the Djibouti meeting of the 57 ministers raised Thailand, and not in a generally positive way.

The references to the situation in the deep South could have been productive or provocative, or both. In truth, despite the overblown government reaction, it was neither.

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Ian
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Discussion 2 : 03 Dec 2012 at 09.352
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When the day comes that non Moslems have equal rights to Moslems in Islamic countries, then true dialogue may be possible.
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Discussion 1 : 03 Dec 2012 at 07.271
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Oh dear. The OIC has made the government lose face just when they have said everything is OK and also added the ISA for another year.
Never mind that people in the South are being murdered on a dialy basis both civilian, police and military and nobody has any real idea about how to control it let alone stop it.
Never mind that over 5,000 people have been murdered over the past few years as that doesn't matter.
What is most important is that Thailand lost face in front of the world.
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