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Seven suspects arrested for Yala attacks
AFP, Published on 09/11/2019
» Seven suspected rebels have been arrested in the South, authorities said Saturday, as a manhunt sweeps through remote villages for gunmen who killed 15 in an ambush considered the deadliest attack in the yearslong insurgency.
God and good luck guide train travellers in far South
AFP, Published on 27/12/2016
» SUNGAI KOLOK, Narathiwat - For passengers on the 12:33 train from Songkhla's Hat Yai to Sungai Kolok, god and good luck are touchstones for survival.
Noodle shop bomb kills 1, wounds 18 in restive Thai south
AFP, Published on 24/10/2016
» PATTANI - One person was killed and 18 others were wounded, some of them critically, when a bomb exploded outside a noodle shop in Thailand's far south, police and witnesses said Monday.
Pattani inquest rules army killed 4 unarmed men
AFP, Published on 15/09/2016
» BANGKOK - An inquest has ruled that security forces gunned down four unarmed Muslim men in a high-profile case in the deep South, a lawyer said Wednesday.
Rights activists charged over report on army torture
AFP, Published on 26/07/2016
» Three prominent Thai rights defenders were charged Tuesday with criminal defamation over a rare report describing torture suffered by detainees in the restive south, police said.
Revival of Yawi script boost for peace
AFP, Published on 24/10/2014
» SAIBURI, Pattani - A high-pitched chorus pours out from a Muslim nursery school in Thailand's insurgency-battered south, as girls in crisp, white hijabs read aloud the curls and flourishes of a homegrown script virtually erased from public life.
Thai army rangers 'admit killing three boys in deep south'
AFP, Published on 04/03/2014
» Two Thai army rangers have confessed to shooting dead three young brothers in the country's violence-torn deep south in an attack that sparked a spate of gruesome tit-for-tat killings, police said Tuesday.
War widows bear heavy burden
AFP, Published on 24/02/2014
» Widowed and blinded in one eye by vengeful rebels, Tungrudee Jaiin was left to raise four children alone in insurgency-ravaged southern Thailand, where women carry a heavy burden of a seemingly endless war.
Widow holds out in war-torn village
AFP, Published on 08/10/2013
» NARATHIWAT - Guarded by Thai soldiers from rebel attacks, an 81-year-old grandmother -- the last Buddhist in a Muslim village -- refuses to abandon her home, defying a wider split between insurgency-plagued communities.
Lone Buddhist widow holds out in war-torn Thai village
AFP, Published on 08/10/2013
» Guarded by Thai soldiers from rebel attacks, an 81-year-old grandmother -- the last Buddhist in a Muslim village -- refuses to abandon her home, defying a wider split between insurgency-plagued communities.