When the 6-billion baht worth of property project named Pattani Jaya or Pattani new town was recently launched, one common big question was then raised with the developer of the project: "Are they not scared with bombs?"

A dilapidated Islamic religious school in Yaring district of Pattani which was left abandoned since it was closed down by authorities in 2005 has recently been "frozen" by the Anti Money Laundering Office to the chagrin of its co-owners.

Like many other bomb victims in the restive deep South, Pol Corporal Wutthinant Chan-on is just a faceless figure whose sacrifice to serve the Motherland and to protect the innocent people was barely mentioned nor much appreciated.

The cold-blooded killing of two teachers in Mayo district of Pattani on December 11 will go down into historical record of the senseless violence which has plagued the deep South for the past nine years.

It seems likely that at least some of the dead and injured on the pickup truck fired on by paramilitary rangers in Pattani on Sunday night are innocent people.