Over two weeks since the roundup of a group of some 200 illegal immigrants of unknown nationality at a rubber plantation in Tambon Kamphaengpetch, Rattapoom district of Songkhla province, immigration police are still trying to determine their nationality and where they came from.

The problem of Rohingya Muslim refugees in Thailand is an issue of interest of the new secretary-general of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (IOC) Mr Iyad Ameen Madani.

One of the recipients of this year’s (2014) Outstanding Women In the Promotion of Peace, Mrs Kamnoeng Chamnankit, was herself a victim of alleged abuses by the authorities in the Deep South which was the main reason that has completely changed her life.

A big question was raised in the aftermath of the Supreme Administrative Court’s ruling for the reinstatement of Mr Thawil Pliensri as the secretary-general of National Security Council retroactively as of September 2011 about whether a government can or cannot order the transfer of any government officials?

Five children were killed and three others injured in nine violent incidents which occurred in the far South during last December and January this year. The dead victims included three brothers of the Mamun family aged from 6 to 11 who were shot dead by unknown gunmen who raided their house in Ban Palookapaeroh, Bacho district of Narathiwat on February 3.