Source: Reuters
http://today.reuters.com/News/CrisesArticle.aspx?storyId=BKK206284
On October 17, 2005 Reuters reported, "Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra called for calm in the restive Muslim south on Monday after the murders of a monk and two teenage boys at a Buddhist temple stoked fears of growing religious tension.
'Even Muslim leaders cannot stand this. It was an act human beings would not dare to do,' Thaksin told reporters when asked about Sunday's attack in Pattani province in which militants slit the throat of the 76-year-old monk, and burnt his body along with the two teenagers.
'The culprits will get their just desserts,' said Thaksin, urging Buddhists not to take the law into their own hands in the Muslim-majority region where over 900 people have died in 21 months of separatist violence.
The attacks came during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, in which police figures from last year showed intensified attacks on civilian and government targets, both Muslim and Buddhists, compared to other months."