Word: narathiwat
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...April 22 A village chief is shot dead in Narathiwat, and more than 50 government buildings, including schools, are torched in Yala...
...Gunmen raid an army depot in Narathiwat, killing four soldiers and stealing 400 rifles. Twenty-one schools are set on fire; martial law is declared...
...Unidentified attackers kill a police officer in Yala and burn a Buddhist temple in Narathiwat...
...trees, armed with machine guns. The barracks were hopelessly vulnerable: almost 300 soldiers were asleep, while the rest of the battalion was either temporarily stationed elsewhere or on leave. And the sleeping soldiers were not even a fighting force but engineers building roads and canals in the province of Narathiwat in Thailand's deep south. When the shooting began, at about 1 a.m. on Jan. 4, the soldiers awoke with a start and dived to the floor. Not one reached for a weapon: their guns were securely stowed in the battalion's armory. That night, four soldiers guarding the armory...
...dealers who had already surrendered and were handcuffed. Television cameras showed them being marched into a shack, six shots were heard, then six bodies wrapped in white sheets were carried out. But here in the deep south, it's the police who are afraid. Among the Malay Muslims of Narathiwat, Pattani, Yala, Songkhla and Satun provinces, hatred of the mostly Buddhist police runs deep?stemming from what Muslims contend are decades of religiously motivated violence and discrimination. "They used to beat us at will. People disappeared every day," claims Yuso Pakistan, a former Muslim separatist. Locals also claim that police...