"He likes to be hugged while we are sleeping together. We have never been far from each other," said a grieving Mrs Sobriya Sama-ae as she watched her two-year old boy, Muza, fall asleep on a bed in Pattani provincial hospital’s intensive care unit.

Cho Ai Rong police station in Narathiwat’s Cho Ai Rong district was voted by the Crime Reporters Association of Thailand as the most outstanding police station for being the model for the development of police stations.

It is undeniable that the February 20 car bomb attack in Narathiwat’s Muang municipal area which left 13 civilians injured, many houses and cars damaged has seriously affected public confidence in the government’s handling of the unrest problem in the Deep South.

One of the charges slapped against Pol Lt-Gen Pongpat Chayapan, former commissioner of Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) and his gang of police officers is abetting oil smuggling gangs in the Deep South in exchange for bribes.

Video clips from surveillance cameras and forensic tests of the war weapons seized after a brazen attack of a patrol unit in Pattani in July 2012 which left four army troops dead and two injured are key evidences which convince the Pattani court to condemn to death five southern militants in November 26.