Thailand will assemble a peace negotiating team by the end of the week to revive talks with Muslim separatists whose insurgency in the south of the country has cost thousands of lives in the past decade, the military junta said on Wednesday. Udomdet Sitabutr, secretary-general of the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO), as the junta is formally known, said talks, brokered by Malaysia, would "definitely move forward" and that Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha will appoint team members to lead the Thai delegation. The insurgency is based in Pattani, Yala and Narathiwat provinces in Thailand's so-called "Deep South". Thailand is a mainly Buddhist country and resistance to central government rule in the three Muslim-majority provinces has existed for decades, resurfacing brutally in 2004.
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