One day after two bomb attacks in Hat Yai on Tuesday May 6, police explosive ordnance disposal teams have collected enough vital evidences to enable police investigators to pin their fingerpoint on the culprits – southern separatists.

This year’s April 28 marked the 10th anniversary of the Krue Se incident. Hence, it was appropriate to recount the tragic incident in case many people might have forgotten about it in order to serve as a lesson that such incident should never be allowed to be repeated.

"I am afraid to venture out anywhere. In the market I may be shot or bombed. When I go back and forth between home and school, I am very scared if our car has to follow a military vehicle because they (separatists) may shoot at the soldiers and we get shot. Previously, it was OK because the children were spared. But now everyone is at risk."

Despite the latest car bomb attack in Yala townseat early this month and the risks of bombings and shootings by the separatists, many Buddhist residents in the municipal areas of the three southernmost provinces managed to free themselves from all the worries just to have fun a couple of days in celebrating Songkran festival.

The last time that Yala’s municipality was struck by a car bomb was on March 31, 2012 in the commercial area located at the junction of Ruam Mitr and Chong Rak roads killing ten innocent people and injuring about a hundred.