Why to avoid Southern Thailand

The South is in a war and people should do something about.

An ethnic separatist insurgency is taking place in Southern Thailand, predominantly in the Malay Pattani region, made up of the three southernmost provinces of Thailand. Violence has increasingly spilling over into other provinces

Today: 
 
Three bomb attacks minutes apart killed 10 people and wounded more than 100  in the heart of Yala in the insurgency-hit far south.


A car bomb have caused the fire that killed five people at a Hat Yai hotel and sent more than 300 to hospital.


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More than 160 billion bath has been spent to deal with violence in the southermost provinces since it flared up eight years ago with little success to show for it. The insurgency flared on Jan 4, 2004, when a group of armed militants raided an armoury of the 4th development battalion in Narathiwat's Cho Airong district of and made off with a huge cache of war weapons.

The raid marked the renewal of insurgent violence in the southernmost provinces of Yala, Pattani, Narathiwat and some districts of Songkhla. The violence has continued ever since with few signs of abating. The southern violence has claimed more than 5,000 lives and resulted in more than 10,000 injuries. The death toll includes ordinary citizens, religious leaders, Buddhist monks, local government officers, teachers, policemen and soldiers.

A total of 1,629 firearms have been stolen and used against state authorities and civilians since the raid. Only 484 have been retrieved so far.Various agencies have been set up to cope with the southern insurgency. But it appears there is little they can do to contain the violence. It also appears that Al Qaeda is helping this insurgency.

In early February, the ministry of interior proposed a 7.5 million bath to all victims of the insurgency including those from the Tak Bai Massacre and the Kru Se Mosque Incident