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...well as soldiers and police. Just a few years ago, neighbors of different religions used to mingle, but the carnage has frayed such bonds. "The communities have become alienated from each other," says Srisompob Jitpiromsri, who heads a think tank on the Thai south conflict at Prince of Songkla University in Pattani. "They both blame the other for being the real cause of the violence in the south." (See pictures of Thai people boxing their way out of poverty and prison...
...recent poll of southern Thais by the respected Prince of Songkla University found that among various groups [EM] public health workers, religious figures, teachers, village headmen and so on [EM] the least-trusted individuals were those from the military and the police. In fact, only 18.6% of locals in the deep south fully agreed that a military solution was the right one for these three troubled provinces. An Amnesty International report released earlier this year condemned Thai security forces for using torture against detainees, not least because such violations would only stoke further radicalization among already disenchanted Muslim youth. Given...
...month (TIME, March 11). In the excitement of his ascension to the throne, Ananda, heretofore high in his classes in the Swiss school at Lausanne, which he has been attending, has fallen a little behind. Last week came examinations. A word from His Majesty was sufficient. Thereupon Queen Mother Songkla petitioned the Lausanne director of schools to excuse Ananda from taking the examination. The Siamese Legation in Switzerland repeated the request. Last week the Lausanne director ruled: "Ananda Mahidol is excused from the spring examinations and is hereby promoted to the classical college [equivalent of U. S. high school...
...Songkla, Sp., the next speaker, defined the aim of foreigners in coming to Harvard as being to study America and Americans as "live specimens", to enrich themselves by the exchange of ideas, and to bring forth the motto of the club "Above all nations is humanity...
...joint reception of the Phillips Brooks House Association and of the Cosmopolitan Club. All foreign Students in the University are invited to attend. Francesco Bela 1 Med., president of the Cosmopolitan Club, will preside. The following men will speak: C. Canfield '19, Taro Murai '18, of Japan, Mahido Songkla, Sp., of Siam, P. A. Campos, 2L, of Porto Rico, Foo Chang, Grad. L, of China, Captain Amann, and Professor Hurlbut...