The United States annual human rights report was not accurate when criticizing Thailand's human rights situation, said the Thai government.

There were inaccuracies in the US State Department's report, which criticized Thai authorities for using "excessive deadly force" in its handling of the insurgent deep south, the Thai Foreign Ministry spokesman Sihasak Puangketkaew told the US ambassador Ralph Boyce on Wednesday.

"We hope that next year the same thing won't happen again," the Thai spokesperson on Thursday was quoted by newspaper Nation as saying.

Hundreds of Muslim and Buddhists, including police and local officials, had been killed by insurgents in the country's Muslim-dominated southernmost provinces, said Sihasak.

The US report, however, only concentrated on an official raid of a local mosque and the death of 78 Muslim detainees while in custody following a violent demonstration in the deep south in last year.

The report's accusations that the government had violated human rights were unfounded and lacked specifics, said Sihasak, who met with the US ambassador on Wednesday.