"I don’t know what to say. It pains my heart. You know if the other side (the separatists) come to me and ask me to sow some spikes on the road or fell a tree to block a road, I will do it unhesitantly."

53-year old Mrs Isara Chairitchoke became the seventh teacher killed by suspected militants in the restive Deep South so far this year.

The killing of Mrs Pairat Chitsane, a 50-year old school teacher of Ban Duwa school in Pattani’s Mayor district, at Palas market at the joint border of Panareh and Mayor districts on May 7 allegedly by southern separatists has, once again, highlighted the safety or lack of safety problem for teachers in the restive Deep South.

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.

This year’s October 25 marks the 10th anniversary of the Tak Bai massacre -