The Thai government gets an A+ for originality. In a move to pacify the Muslim areas of the country, the Thai air force dropped 100 million hand-made "peace birds" in the southern area of Thailand where Muslims predominate. According to Reuters,

The bird campaign, launched by Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra weeks ahead of a general election, caught the imagination of the predominantly Buddhist country, even in Bangkok where sympathy for the Malay-speaking south is limited.

Everyone from cabinet ministers to cab drivers huddled in groups to fold birds -- they were meant to be doves, a symbol of peace, but most turned out to look more like cranes -- after Thaksin called on all 63 million Thais to make one.

Reuters describes it as "probably the biggest origami airdrop in history." I don't know if it will help, but at least it won't make the situation worse—which is what this was guaranteed to do—

.... 85 Muslims died after a demonstration.

Most suffocated or were crushed to death in army trucks in which they had been stacked "like bricks".