I published some information about the protests in bangkok, but today, more than eight years after the latest wave of violence first hit the southernmost provinces in Thailand, the authorities are no longer able to ignore the political underpinnings of these attacks. A new generation of Malay Muslim insurgents has emerged and these fighters appear to be much more daring and brutal than the generation that had put down their arms in the early 1990s.
On an almost daily basis these angry young men take on government security forces and instil great fear in the local population. They have succeeded in driving a bigger wedge between the Thai state and the Malay-speaking community in the Deep South.
There is a very good account of the situation in the South in this article in the Nation: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/home/2010/03/28/life/The-South-I-used-to-know-30125745.html
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