Southern Insurgency
| Item title | Author | Description | Language | Accession Number |
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| Extinguishing Southern Fire and the Thai Government | Kitti Ratanachaya | Compiles unrest problems in three Southern border provinces, summarizing the situation and violence relating to various groups. Identifies the situation as an undeclared war, presenting different viewpoints on the tasks and course of operations of Thai government in solving the problems. Indentifies security strategies based on 25 cases, covering political, economic, social, psychological, and military problems. provides a summary of situation ...Continue Reading | Thai | 69325 |
| Trouble in Thailand's Muslim South: Separatism, Not Global Terrorism | Smith, Anthony L | Examines the emergence of separatist-linked violence in Thailand's South as the result of complex social upheaval. Considers background factors of the probelm in relationship with the predominantly Muslim Communities of the South. Mentions the perceptions of injustice and expressions of discontent that caused the emergence of various separatist/irredentist groups over the years. Consdiers the evidences of the links between separatist sentiment ...Continue Reading | English | 69161 |
| A Road Map for Peace | Sanitsuda Ekachai | Outlines the first blueprint for peace strategies in the three southern-most provinces raised by Mr. Prawase Wasi, a civil society leader and peace advocate. Analyzes the complex problems in the South with serious rethinking of the entire history of Southern conflicts. Mentions the ethnic-Malay Muslims on Thai territory during the reign of King Rama I, a forced-assimilation policy to dissolve ethnic-Malay identity in Pibulsongkham regime, the p ...Continue Reading | English | 69118 |
| The Muslims of Thailand | Gilquin, Michel | Examines the origins of Islam in the Kingdom of Siam, Muslim integration into the Thai nation, and the effects of globaliztion and modernity on a mostly traditional and rural community. Considers the weight of history of the old sultanate of pattani on the present-day Yawi-speaking majority in Narathiwat, Yala, and Pattani, and the circumstances leading to the troubles which erupted in 2004. Explains the background to the present situations, ...Continue Reading | English | 68921 |
| Reflections on the Violence from the South | Amporn Marddent | Indicates that many Thai scholars, activists and officials have analyzed and suggested strategies to solve the problems of increasing violence in Southern Thailand without the local insiders' perspectives. Interviews local insiders such as religious leaders, educational administrators, villagers, students, children and youth, regarding the impacts of violent situation on the Islamic educational institutions or Pondok institutes, and on people th ...Continue Reading | Thai | 68489 |
| Violence Hinted in Legends of Wali Chao Prakuun Takia, Ayuthaya, and Toe Wali Lammakaam, Trat: Reflection of Conflicts Between Buddhism and Islam | Saipan Puriwanchana | Describes the roles and significance of Toe Wali or miracle men in the Islamic belief, focusing on Toe Wali Chao Prakun Takia in Ayutthaya province and Toe Wali Lammakham in Trat province. Studies the legends of these two miracle men which reflect historical conflicts between Buddhists and Muslims, including fieldwork research in the selected Muslim communities. Summarizes that Toe Wali legends reflect only the interaction between Buddhists a ...Continue Reading | Thai | 68487 |
| Muslims Kratoey : Violence in the Third Sex | Somrudee Sa-nguankaew | States Islamic provisions on sexual deviant behavior, including the stories of forbidden behaviors and penalties as examples. Defines the terms Krathoey or Po Nae used to call the ones with deviant behavior in Thai-Muslim society. Examines social conditions, norms and religious provisions oppressed the Muslim Krathoey, noting mistreatment and violence they have to face. Suggests that they should control or suppress their femininity for sur ...Continue Reading | Thai | 68479 |
| Conflict and Violence in Contemporary Short Stories of the Southern Writers | Thanya Sangkhaphanthanont | Studies conflict and violence proposed in contemporary short stories of the Southern Thailand writers, citing Kanokpong Songsompan's short story collection called Pandin Uen or Other Land as an example. Indicates that changes in the society, politics, economy and culture are important factors inducing conflict and violence both in ideal and practical levels of people in the society. Indicates the conflicts between Thai Buddhist and Thai Mus ...Continue Reading | Thai | 68477 |
| Culture Free of Prejudice, Life Free of Violence, A Collection of Abstracts from the 4th Annual Anthropological Conference on 23-25 March 2005 | National Conference of Anthropologists in Thailand (4th : 2005 : Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Anthropology Centre, Bangkok) | Contains abstracts of the papers presented at the 4th Annual Conference on Anthropology, regarding the issues on structural conflict in Thai culture prejudice and conflicts related to religion and race treatment of women, adolescence and the third gender conflicts and violence shown in literature conflicts of water resources and dam construction and negotiation, conciliation and conflict resolution. Includes case studies of violence in neig ...Continue Reading | Multilanguage | 68449 |
| Violence in the Mist: Reporting on the Presence of Pain in Southern Thailand | Supara Janchitfah | Deals with the violence in South Thailand, reporting the presence of pain of those who have lost their family members. Narrates about the victims of this violence, questioning the standard explanations of different incidents. Shares stories of ordinary people who encounter violence in the three southernmost provinces, namely Pattani, Yala, and Narathiwat. Investigates their personal perceptions of the Southern situation, covering the issues of ...Continue Reading | Multilanguage | 67773 |
| Change of Tactics in the South | Prasong Charasdamrong | Analyzes Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra's adjusting policy to maintain security in the troubled-plagued provinces in South Thailand. Looks at the complicated problems in Yala, Pattani, and Narathiwat, considering acts of terrorism systematically engineered by people who want the southern provinces to be part of an Independent Islamic state. Mentions key players arrested by Thai authorities, explaining phases of terror created by separatists, ...Continue Reading | English | 67584 |
| The 2004 Thai National Symposium on Population Studies, 25-26 November 2004 | Thai National Symposium on Population Studies (2004 : Bangkok) | Compiles papers presented at the Thai National Symposium On Population Studies in 2004. Deals with the topics of nuptiality and fertility, mortality, population and health, trend and population change, population and economics, adolescent and elderly. Covers papers on teenage pregnancy situation in Thailand, trend of remaining single among Thai women during 1960-2000, mortality in Thailand and the causes of death, and Thailand National AIDS acc ...Continue Reading | Thai | 67582 |
| Friction on the Thai-Malay Fault Line | Murphy, Colum | Examines the relations between Malaysia and Thailand which have deteriorated due to the ongoing conflicts in three provinces of Narathiwat, Pattani, and Yala of South Thailand. Deals with the resurgence in violent conflict since 2004, mentioning the case of 131 Thai Muslim fled across the border to seek refuge in Malaysia's Kelantan state, and the Tak Bai tragedy which Thai Muslims died from suffocation while in police custody. Analyzes the act ...Continue Reading | English | 67575 |
| Man in the Hot Seat | Wassana Nanuam | Examines the authority and role of Sawasdi Sumalayasak, the supreme leader of Thai Muslims in the title of Chularatchamontri, in Southern problems. Considers the reaction from the Chularatchamontri and the Central Islamic Committee of Thailand to the massacre at Tak Bai incident, Narathiwat province. Mentions the inhumane transportation methods for the offenders in the incident, giving opinion that the use of force cannot solve Southern problem ...Continue Reading | English | 67534 |
| Globalization and Hegemony | Compiles eight articles on globalization and hegemony. Examines some dominant trends and contentious issues in Cold War historiography, arguing that several dimensions of the Cold War are still present in the post-Cold War world, and they could be understood by rethinking the Cold War and the American empire. Examines the Cold War by applying a revisionist analysis of Thai-US relations between the end of the Second World War and the American wi ...Continue Reading | English | 67192 | |
| Thailand's Bloody Monday | Perrin, Andrew | Deals with the Tak Bai tradgedy at Narathiwat province on October 25, 2004 indicating Muslim villagers' demand for the freedom of six men arrested for allegedly providing arms to Islamic separatist fighters. Narrates the ongoing incident, covering the uncontrolling situation, the military actions against the demonstrators, the dead protestors, and the suffocated to dead of the arrested men piled up in the trucks to the military base at Pattani pr ...Continue Reading | English | 66825 |
| Asia: Southern Front | Elegant, Simon | Analyzes how Muslims have been fighting for decades for a separate state in South Thailand, tracing the violence in the three Southern provinces of Pattani, Yala, and Narathiwat since the 1970s and 1980s. Considers the present violence, bombing, assassinations with soldiers, policemen, monks, teachers in Sugai Golok, Narathiwat province. Reveals that most of the leaders' involvement in the South are young ustaz, or Islamic teachers who spent fo ...Continue Reading | English | 66816 |
| Caught in the Crossfire | Sanitsuda Ekachai | Examines the background and Muslim way of life at Bau Dato in Tambon Laem Poh, Yaring district, Pattani in order to understand how their lives have been affected by the southern violence, and what they want the state to do. Points out the authorities' lack of respect for the deep south Muslims' ways, the difference of ideas on old stream and new stream among Muslim brothers, the challenge from the government's seafood bank project and the vi ...Continue Reading | English | 66439 |
| Is There a Solution? | Supara Janchitfah | Indicates the causes of the violence incident in the South of Thailand citing incorrect solutions of government and misguided youth groups. Suggests the use of political solutions more than military operation. Describes a barrier to enact the National Security Council (NSC) strategies, concerning policies and cultural differences, and media's report. Note that the conflicts and unrest in the deep south stem came from many factors, i.e. forcefu ...Continue Reading | English | 66270 |
| Southern Fire, Who Ignites? | Anwa, Coinlin | Traces historical background of the former Pattani State and the rulers, dating back to the Ayutthaya period, to investigate the roots of conflict of Pattani. Indicates the nationalist policy of Prime Minister P. Phibunsongkhram and the resistance of the southern Muslims, providing information on the conflicts in these areas, and the separatist and transnational movements. Proposes solutions to the problems suggested by Dr. Prawet Wasi and Thir ...Continue Reading | Thai | 65882 |
