Eleven years on since the Tak Bai massacre on October 25, 2004, Mrs Yaena Salamae has wanted to forget that traumatic incident but cannot as she and her neighbours are occasionally reminded of the incident by members of the security force.

In wake of the issuance of a 4-page statement by the information department of the Barisan Revolusi Nasional on October 12 regarding the preliminary peace talks between the government and Mara Patani and a subsequent statement from the spokesman of the Internal Security Operations Command on the following day,

Lt-Gen Wiwath Pathompark is one of a handful of army officers who grew up in Narathiwat and who also served in different capacities in different capacities until his latest promotion as the new commander of the Fourth Army Region.

Unlike their peers of the old days, many college graduates, these days, do not find working in government service or in the private sector attractive or promising. They aspire to become entrepreneurs, be their own bosses and have their own businesses.

The first thing that former PULO chieftain Haji Da-oh Thanam or Da-oh Maseng did when he was set free on probation on Saturday September 19 after having spent 18 years in prison was to return home to his 85-year old mother, Mrs Meenor Maseng.