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Dec 18, 2004

"That's all nonviolence is: organized love." --Joan Baez

Peace Bombs

Around 50 Thai Air Force planes "bombed" the largely Muslim south with paper birds as a symbol of peace for the restive region where nearly 500 people have been killed since January. Villagers stared into the sky awaiting the deluge of an estimated 100 million paper birds, one of which was signed by Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra and carried the promise of a scholarship or a job for the finder.