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Foreign Ministry to bring body of peace advocate home

BANGKOK, September 21 (TNA) - Officials of the Foreign Affairs Ministry are coordinating with concerned authorities in an attempt to bring the body of Muslim peace advocate Ahmadsomboon Bualuang back toThailand for religious ceremony, officials said Sunday. Ahmadsomboon passed away in Sweden on Saturday evening after developing a tight chest while he was travelling by train. He was rushed to a hospital in Lund, but doctors were unable to save his life. Ahmadsomboon left Thailand on September 15 on a mission to attend a peace talks as a representative of the Thai civil sector. The 64-year-old peace advocate was a member of the National Reconciliation Commission, set up in 2005 by then prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra with an objective to solve bloody violence in deep southern Thailand. The now-defunct commission was headed by ex-prime minister Anand Panyarachun. Ahmadsomboon was an important figure of Thailand in solving the current violence in deep southern region. Meanwhile, the general atmosphere at Ahmadsomboon’s private residence in Pattani province, one of the three southern provinces being affected by the violence, is filled with sorrow following his death. His wife refuses to give interview to journalists. (TNA)

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