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Provinces in Thailand’s deep south have been the site of ongoing violent conflict since 2004. With a long-waited election approaching in March, peace and human rights activists are running for office and hoping to seek peace through democratic means.
Violent conflict in Thailand’s deep (...)
When the Japanese scholar and translator, Hara Shintaro used the term ’Siamese imperialist’ in a translation of a YouTube post by BRN, a Malay armed resistance organization believed by many to be the strongest and most active group in the Patani conflict, it was condemned not simply for being (...)
Romadon Panjor, editor of the Deep South Watch website, presented his Master’s Degree thesis at the Faculty of Political Science, Thammasat University, on how the Thai state has created a large number of terms over the past 12 years’ of violence in the Deep South that obfuscate the political (...)
After 44 students were arrested in connection to an alleged Bangkok bombing plot, a group of academics who support human rights has urged authorities to stop the arbitrary arrest of Muslim Malay citizens.
Over the past week, 36 males and eight female Deep South youths have been arrested in (...)
The Military Junta should be careful how it reacts to the passing of King Bhumibol. Emotions are high right now in Thailand which the military will no doubt aim to exploit to consolidate its political power over the country.
In fact, the Military Junta has already taken steps to intensify (...)
October 2013 – Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal — This article is an attempt to analyse the political situation surrounding the bloody civil war in “Patani-Southern Thailand” from the perspective of those who seek freedom, justice and self-determination. Unlike most academic (...)
Below is an excerpt from Thai socialist Giles Ji Ungpakorn’s latest book, Thailand’s Crisis and the Fight for Democracy. It provides an historical background to Thai politics from the pre-capitalist era, through the turmoil of the 1930s and 1970s, up to the present day. It has been posted at (...)
Prof. Sikke Hempenius is counted as a great benefactor to Thailand because he initiated the systematic study of coastal erosion in Thailand by bringing students from Delft University of Technology over 10 years ago to conduct research on major causes of erosion. He has tried to interest Thai (...)
The shooting at the Al-Furquan mosque in Narathiwat’s Joi Airong district on June 8, 2009 was another startling incident to rock the southern border provinces of Thailand. Since the beginning of June, there has been a considerable increase in violent incidents across the region. Several (...)
It took five years for a court in Songkhla, southern Thailand, to hold an inquest into the deaths of 78 men after they were detained along with over 1,000 others outside the Tak Bai police station in October 2004. But for all the time spent and witnesses heard, the findings handed down on May (...)
BANGKOK - Stepped up violence in Thailand’s restive southernmost region saw a brutal massacre at a mosque, leading to speculation that wayward security forces may have had a hand in the shadowy assault. That attack and a controversial verdict over the 2004 Tak Bai massacre will likely dampen (...)
Like a never-ending vicious cycle violence - from both sides, oppression and discrimination by the state, ignorance by non-Thai-Malay Muslims - feeds into this conflict with no end in sight. The case of 11 killings at a mosque in Narathiwat province on Monday won’t be the last.
Forget about (...)
A state court rules the government was justified in the massacre of scores in southern Thailand in 2004
The use of force to disperse and then capture unarmed demonstrators at Takbai in Southern Thailand on October 25, 2004 was a state crime. The protesters were tied up and thrown onto the (...)
Last week Amnesty International reported the Thai army is systematically using torture in the far south. The army denies it has any such policy. Yet a Narathiwat court last month ruled that an imam had been battered to death in military detention. For the past year, the far south has been (...)
Thailand’s new premier has vowed to tackle a separatist insurgency raging in the south, but the Muslim region on Sunday marks five years of bloodshed with little end in sight to the daily violence.
Thai political turmoil has left the army with free rein in the south, prompting widespread (...)
Almost five years have passed since the resurgence of separatist violence in the far southern border provinces.
The resurgence was marked by an arms robbery at the Pileng army camp in Narathiwat’s Cho Airong district on Jan 4, 2004.
Violence there has not merely affected the region’s (...)
For villagers without land titles, the democracy they seek does not come from the warring elite in Bangkok. Once in a while, they get real democracy, and it has the power to heal.
For the ethnic Malay Muslim villagers who live close to nature there, the land plots in question belong to (...)
Three simultaneous bomb blasts went off, one near the meeting venue of local officials, injuring more than 60 people in Thailand’s southernmost province of Narathiwat, and the last two at a nearby fruit market, authorities said.
Vice governor of Narathiwat, Niphan Naraphitakkul, said one (...)
A series of attacks in Thailand’s deep south this week are raising raised fears of a new militant offensive in the predominately Malay-Muslim region and underscored just how difficult it will be for the new government to stop the carnage.
On Monday, a day after six suspected militants (...)
(New York, March 20, 2007) – Thai security forces should stop using enforced disappearance as a tool against suspected Malay Muslim separatists in Thailand’s southern border provinces, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released today.
The 69-page report, “It Was Like Suddenly My Son No (...)
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