The official signing of the peace agreement between the Philippine government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) on March 27 may provide hope to or inspire several parties concerned in Thailand that the peace process in the restive Deep South may lead to an end of the senseless violence and restoration of durable peace.
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.
"We feel very depressed for being victimized repeatedly. Even though Anwar is in prison, we were served with search warrant. If Anwar was at home that day, we believe he would definitely be arrested again because he would have been suspected of the shooting of police and civilians on February 13."
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.
There was nothing wrong when Army Commander-in-Chief General Prayuth Chan-ocha said the other day that he had the right to appoint any senior army officer to be the commander of the 4th Army Region to deal with the unrest problem in the Deep South because he is the army C-in-C.
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.
March 12, 2014 marked the 10th year anniversary of the enforced disappearance of Muslim lawyer Somchai Neelapaijit.
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?
February is supposed to be the month of love – the month when people show off their love towards their loved ones or towards one another even without offering a rose.
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.