No One is Safe: Insurgent Attacks on Civilians in Thailand’s Southern Border Provinces, Human Rights Watch, August 2007

Summary: (Excerpt from report) 

For nearly four years, Thailand’s predominantly ethnic Malay Muslim southern border provinces of Pattani, Yala, and Narathiwat have been the scene of unprecedented violence and brutality. After the January 4, 2004 armed raid on an army depot in Narathiwat province, which marked the renewal of an insurgency, government forces have responded by committing serious and widespread abuses against suspected militants and their supporters. State-sanctioned abuses have most clearly been evidenced by the Krue Se (April 28, 2004) and Tak Bai (October 25, 2004) killings. These incidents, along with numerous cases of arbitrary arrests, torture, “disappearances,” and extrajudicial killings, have served to pour fuel on the fire and ensure the spread of insurgency. Human Rights Watch documented one aspect of the government’s abusive security operations in the south in a March 2007 report, “It Was Like Suddenly My Son No Longer Existed,” which demonstrated a pattern of enforced disappearances and other illegal measures by the security forces...

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