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	Somyot said the deportation of 109 Uighurs in July destroyed the business of human traffickers who smuggled the Uighur people via Thailand, prompting the traffickers to retaliate.</div>
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	.&quot;We suspect the bombings were in retaliation. The traffickers are angry that we destroyed their businesses and angry that police shut down their illegal networks</div>
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