Like many other bomb victims in the restive deep South, Pol Corporal Wutthinant Chan-on is just a faceless figure whose sacrifice to serve the Motherland and to protect the innocent people was barely mentioned nor much appreciated.

The budget for 2013 fiscal year for the development of the deep South and to resolve unrest problem in the restive region has been increased by about 25 percent from 16.2 billion baht to 20.7 billion baht.

The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) will not interfere in the internal affairs of Thailand and will not support separatism but would prefer to see the emergency rule be lifted in the three southernmost provinces. The above opinion was expressed by special envoy to OIC secretary-general Sayed Kassem El-Masry.

That was the big question raised by quite a few people when Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra suddenly visited the violence-prone deep South on April 29.

Thai-Malay Muslims who operate or work in tom yam kung (hot and spicy shrimp soup) restaurants in Malaysia have always been held in suspicion by Thai security officials of being supportive of the separatist cause in the deep South.