Thailand Muslim deaths condemned as 'holocaust'

Malaysia’s largest Islamic opposition party denounced the Thai government today after 85 Muslims died during a military crackdown on protesters in the country’s south.

Hatta Ramli, a senior official with the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party, said those killed – including at least 78 detainees who suffocated or were crushed to death after being packed into trucks – were victims of “a holocaust which the Thai government is responsible for".