The Malay-Muslim Insurgency in Southern Thailand Understanding the Conflict’s Evolving Dynamic

Apparently we were not meant to know anything about the background of the turmoil in Thailand according to the mainstreams:

 

From: http://www.cfr.org/publication/17307/rand.html

Author: Peter Chalk

“September 22, 2008

Current unrest in the Malay-Muslim provinces of southern Thailand has captured growing national, regional, and international attention due to the heightened tempo and scale of rebel attacks, the increasingly jihadist undertone that has come to characterize insurgent actions, and the central government’s often brutal handling of the situation on the ground. Of particular note are growing concerns that the conflict is no longer purely local in nature but has been systematically hijacked by outside extremists to avail wider transnational Islamist designs in Southeast Asia…”

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We are not very surprised.

Sonia