OPINION

Bringing insurgency to an end will be a long, hard slog

News, Thitinan Pongsudhirak, Published on 01/03/2013

» The media hype in Bangkok surrounding Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra's recent meeting with Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak in Putrajaya sounded as if peace was at hand in Thailand's restive southernmost border provinces where a deadly Malay-Muslim insurgency has festered for almost a decade.