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116223
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2012.
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Focusing on the case of Thailand's ongoing insurgency in its southern Malay Muslim majority region, this article examines the circumstances surrounding individual's choices to engage in violent revolt and their conformity and non-conformity with the norms and disciplines of the movement in which they operate. Insurgent-driven violence in Thailand's southern border provinces has attracted considerable attention, but little has been published about the people who become "Patani Warriors" (juwae). Based on the authors' direct encounters with current and former insurgents and study of Thai official documentation and captured insurgent propaganda material, this article presents the most detailed information currently available on southern Thailand's shadowy fighters. We argue that there is no single type of Malay Muslim insurgent: this variegated reality defies the normative ideals projected in insurgent's indoctrination material while it also poses a challenge for the Thai authorities to define in simple terms those who oppose the state.
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097797
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101016
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2010.
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Although violence in Thailand's southern border provinces declined from its peak in 2007, low-level violence continues to challenge the state. This essay discusses the limitations of paradigms and policy under the current Democrat Party-led government in the context of the enigmatic insurgency and associated opportunistic violence fuelling the instability.
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089371
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2009.
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Thai Buddhist and Malay Muslim neighbours in Thailand's Muslim-majority deep south face the challenge of managing everyday life in the midst of an enigmatic insurgency where both ethno-religious groups are victims of violence, but where the assailants are difficult to identify. This ethnographically-focused paper examines horizons of trust and suspicion as villagers confront threats to their safety, negotiate state authorities and encounter broader narratives about identity, allegiance and enemies. Although fear and suspicion sparked by the current violence have generated Buddhist-Muslim tensions in localities, neighbourhoods and village leaders also actively resist the multiple threats to their relationships and to inter-ethnic coexistence.
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096571
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2009.
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Thai Buddhist and Malay Muslim neighbours in Thailand's Muslim-majority deep south face the challenge of managing everyday life in the midst of an enigmatic insurgency where both ethno-religious groups are victims of violence, but where the assailants are difficult to identify. This ethnographically-focused paper examines horizons of trust and suspicion as villagers confront threats to their safety, negotiate state authorities and encounter broader narratives about identity, allegiance and enemies. Although fear and suspicion sparked by the current violence have generated Buddhist-Muslim tensions in localities, neighbourhoods and village leaders also actively resist the multiple threats to their relationships and to inter-ethnic coexistence.
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083829
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2008.
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With the complex crisis in Thailand's Muslim-majority border provinces now in its 5th year and a grim legacy of over 3,000 deaths, opinion is divided over the prospects of substantial improvement, though the authorities claim that headway is being made. This article offers a critical review of policy, key events and discourses surrounding the crisis in the south from the coup of September 2006 to the first months of the new civilian government under Prime Minister Samak. It argues that the southern situation remains intractable for a number of key discursive/political and military/operational reasons, including: the difficulty of combating a war against clandestine, cell-based insurgent groups that employ propaganda as much as violence and show no desire to negotiate; a politics of denial among single-issue groups who continue to avoid confronting the full realities of insurgent violence while condemning state officials as principal aggressors; and the difficulties confronted by authorities in pursuing a dual policy of law-enforcement and "peaceful development" in the face of incomplete intelligence and suspicious villagers. It is unlikely that the lessening of violence will be any more than incremental in the foreseeable future, or that the meaning, causes and solutions to the "fire in the south" will be any less contested.
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ID:
077690
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2007.
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In Thailand, efforts to identify the dynamics, causes, and culprits of the ongoing violence in the Muslim-majority provinces of the south have been informed by narratives of conspiracy. The surge of violence that has wracked the border provinces since early 2004 is suspected by many to be driven not only by ideologically motivated "militants," but by pragmatic interest groups. Suspicions of secret manipulation are deeply embedded in Thailand, reflecting the ways that power is disguised and deployed in state and non-state realms. Low thresholds of trust inform an existing culture of rumor which is easily exploitable by competing groups, including militants. Thailand's borderland Muslim-majority provinces have long been the site of overlapping networks of predatory officials, criminal interests, and political groups, where ethno-religious difference and a problematic history add a potent ingredient for volatility and manipulation. This paper explores the interlinked themes of conspiracy-disorder by examining a number of intelligence documents and commentaries over the period 2004 to 2006. Prevailing suspicions of conspiracy expose the critical role of Thailand's "disorderly state-society complex" in perpetuating instability in the southern borderland. The intimate connection between crime and militant groups in the current violence is highlighted
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