Two names which appeared on a list of 12 individuals ordered by the National Council for Peace and Order to report to the military at the army club in accordance with Order No 50 sounded unfamiliar to most people outside the three southernmost provinces.

"Every time that Nong Bass cries for me that his wounds hurt so much, my heart as a mother pains several hundred times more. Worse, when we see the wounds from bomb shrapnels on his body, we are deeply sad,"

It should have been the routine of any normal day for the family of Mrs Rohima Seedeh. Her husband, Ishoh Seedeh, would ride a motorcycle and she sat on the pillion to pick up their two sons, one of them 5-year old Isfan, who studied the Koran at a religious school Muang district of Pattani.

Convenience stores and public utilities were the targets in the latest bomb attacks in Pattani province on Saturday night May 24 . Three innocent people were killed and more than 60 injured.

The arson and bomb attacks on 6 targets in Narathiwat’s Su-ngai Padi district on Sunday night May 11 caused some injuries and property damages, including two schools and a fresh market.