The 40-day ceasefire during the holy month of Ramadan which began on July 10 has come to an abrupt end after the shooting of a suspected militant and the killing of a Muslim religious teacher of ustaz on July 15-16 respectively.

The above headline was not intended to pick on the government over its handling of the unrest problem in the Deep South. Honestly, I wish to applaud Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra and her government for adopting a pro-active approach towards the problem, including the open peace talks with the Barisan Revolusion Nasional separatist group and the meeting with the secretary-general of the Organ ...

The inclusion of Songkhla’s Sadao district into the Ramadan ceasefire plan announced in Kuala Lumpur on July 12 by Malaysian facilitator of the peace talks, Mr Ahmad Zamzamin Hasim, has provoked widespread protests, including that of Army chief General Prayuth Chan-ocha.

The fragile ceasefire in the Deep South during the holy month of Ramadan was shattered Thursday morning when a roadside bomb detonated by suspected militants exploded on a road in Yala’s Raman district injuring eight troopers assigned to protect teachers.

The deadly bombing in Yala’s Krong Penang district on Saturday June 29 which killed eight army troopers and injured two others was not the first of such incidents in which several men perished in one single attack.