But the wedding guests fought back.
“7 killed in Thai south: police,” from AFP, May 28 (thanks to Twostellas):
YALA (Thailand) – THREE Thai soldiers and four suspected separatist rebels have been killed in a series of incidents across Thailand’s far south, including a shootout at a wedding party, police said on Wednesday.
One soldier was killed and two of his colleagues injured in a blast in Pattani province late on Tuesday, police there said….
Later on Wednesday, in Yala, a group of militants ambushed a wedding convoy, but some of the villagers headed to the celebration were armed and fought their attackers, killing one suspected rebel, police said.
Ten members of the wedding party were injured.
Thai security forces also shot dead three suspected militants during a search of a village in Yala on Wednesday, police said.
Note also AFP’s casual placing of blame for the conflict on the non-Muslim Thais who imperialistically annexed the Malay Sultanate, thus provoking tension. AFP does not mention, of course, that the Malay Sultanate was making war against the Siamese during the war between Siam and Burma, and Thailand conquered it in that context — making it Thai by a right of conquest that has been universally recognized throughout human history — except, of course, when it comes to Israel and to any Muslim land that is conquered by non-Muslims.
More than 3,000 people have been killed since separatist unrest broke out in January 2004 in the south, which was an autonomous Malay Muslim sultanate until mainly Buddhist Thailand annexed it in 1902, provoking decades of tension.