Phansasiri Kularb: Reporting Thailand’s Southern Conflict: Mediating Political Dissent (Rethinking Southeast Asia Series)Andy Buschmann

ASIEN – Nr. 149 (2018) pp. 139–40

New York: Routledge, 2016. 185 pp., 170 USD (hardback), 54.59 USD (paperback)

In Thailand’s Deep South (Yala, Narathiwas, Pattani, and parts of Songkhla), ethnic Malay insurgency groups have been waging violence for self-determination and separation for decades. The conflict dates back to the annexing of today’s southern Thailand from Malaysia but exploded in 2004 and caught fire again recently…