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PM may seek Malaysian role in peace process during KL visit - 22/02/2013
Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra's visit to Malaysia on Thursday will address the possible role of Kuala Lumpur in facilitating a peace process between Bangkok and the Malay Muslim separatist movement.
 
Teacher Killing Condemnation - 29/01/2013
Pulo strongly condemns the killing of teacher ‘Cholthi Cheronchon’, 51, in front of 292 students and 15 other teachers, at the canteen of Tanjung Village School in Narathiwat’s Bachok District on January 23, 2013.
 
Violence begets violence in the troubled South - 20/12/2012
As the southern insurgency rages on, retaliatory killings by both sides have plunged the region into a worsening vicious circle of murder and revenge
 
Thailand: The Evolving Conflict in the South - 13/12/2012
241 11 Dec 2012 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS After a decade of separatist violence in Thailand’s Malay/Muslim-majority southern provinces, insurgent capabilities are outpacing state counter-measures that are mired in complacency and political conflict. While Bangkok claims to make a virtue of patience, more sophisticated and brutal insurgent attacks increase the death toll. Successive governments have opted to muddle through South East Asia’s most violent internal conflict, their responses hostage to outmoded conceptions of the state, bureaucratic turf battles and a bitter national-level political struggle. In 2012, a new security policy for the region acknowledged for the first time the conflict’s political nature and identified decentralisation and dialogue with militants as components of a resolution. But fulfilling this policy demands that Thai leaders depoliticise the South issue, engage with civil society, build a consensus on devolving political power and accelerate efforts toward dialogue. Dialogue and decentralisation may be difficult for Bangkok to implement, but the necessary changes could become even more challenging over time.
 
Thailand to ask Malaysia for Assist - 26/11/2012
KUALA LUMPUR 24 Nov. - Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said that the Thai government has sought to assist from Malaysia to resolve the conflict in the southern region of the country. It was expressed by his Thai counterpart, Yingluck Shinawatra in a meeting recently. He said during opening the 1Malaysia Line Assembly at the Merdeka Hall, Putra World Trade Centre (PWTC) here today. - UTUSAN
 
Recent developments in Patani - 23/08/2012
Increasing levels of violence in Thailand's southern border provinces have prompted the government to act. However, containing the separatist insurgency is fraught with problems and a successful outcome is far from certain.Anthony Davis reports
 
We Neither Ask Nor Refuse Negotiations - 23/03/2012
As long as series of phenomena of oppression, cruelty and violence continue to happen to the Patani Malay people, the international community will never object the Patani resistance as long as they stick to the universal norms of engagement. However, as a peace-loving people, Patani will not reject negotiations if the Thais would also sincerely do so.
 
Thai govt and rebels to resume talks Encouraging signs this time raise hopes of peace in restive south - 17/02/2012
Published on Feb 15, 2012 Thai security personnel inspecting the site of a bomb blast in restive Pattani province last Thursday. A retired teacher was killed and several villagers wounded. -- PHOTO: REUTERS By Nirmal Ghosh, Thailand Correspondent
 
Strongly CONDEMNATION of Murdering Innocent Civilians - 01/02/2012
A brutal, inhumane and unethical attack was carried out by Thai army rangers in collaboration with security guards, on January 29, 2012 in the Keranji village of Patani's Nong Chik district, on a pick-up truck carrying nine innocent Patani Malays. They, aged between 15-74, were on their way to the nearby village for a funeral pray, four of them were killed at the scene, one died later at the hospital, three other were seriously injured. The driver who was also injured, managed to escape.
 
Better-armed, better-trained Thai insurgents - 21/01/2012
By Anthony Davis , Long seen as locked in a low-intensity stalemate, the Malay Muslim separatist conflict in southern Thailand appears to be escalating towards a new and more violent phase.
 
New key players in the Deep South and prospect for peace talk - 17/11/2011
The governors of two southernmost provinces of Yala and Narathiwat are among 34 high-ranking interior officials reshuffled as endorsed by the cabinet on November 15. Narathiwat governor Thanon Vechakornkanont is to become governor of Samut Songkram while Yala governor Krisda Boonrach is to be moved to neighbouring Songkhla. Pattani governor Niphon Narapitakkul has already retired from the service as of September 30.
 
Pulo elects Kasturi as its new president - 05/11/2011
The Nation November 5, 2011 1:08 am A senior figure in the exiled Malay leaders has been promoted to the position of Patani United Liberation Organisation (Pulo) president, according to a statement released from the group's website.
 
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