Thailand's  Southern Insurgency

'The Troubled South' Handmade Book. 2007-2012

Sunthorn Chaochert was shot dead while he was taking his lunch break. Before fleeing, gunmen doused him in petrol and torched both his corpse and the excavator he lay in. Sunthorn was thirty seven years of age.

Portrait of an Unexploded Bomb. Yala 2007

(Below) An 1838 Map of Thailand and Malaya showing the border
North of Pattani. (John Arrowsmith. London)

Muhamad Sakri Wae Useng, a teacher of religion at Baan Bukoh School in Pattani, by the blackened ruins of their school's oldest classrooms, a week after they were rtorched by insurgents. May 14th 2007

Students of Baan Bukoh School assemble for the flag raising ceremony on the first morning of the new school term. Pattani May 14th 2007

Thai Muslim women pray outside the bullet-ridden Krue Se Mosque following the Thai Military and Police's massacre of Muslim assailants taking refuge there on the 28th April 2004. The massacre happened at the end of a day of unrest and clashes which caused 81 deaths.

The mother of execution victim, Chavalit Petyod, is carried by her husband and a Thai soldier after having collapsed at the scene of the killing. 19th May 2007 Yala's Raman district.

Military Police at a rubber plantation crime scene. Yala 2007

Police cover up the body of Chavalit Petyod, a Buddhist man gunned down by a stream in a rubber plantation. Yala. May 18th. 2007

Police-station window.

Islamic religious teachers, swallowed up by the predominantly Buddhist crowd present for Prime Minister Thaksin's visit to the Krue Se Mosque following the Thai Military and Police's massacre of Muslim assailants taking refuge there on the 28th April 2004.

Muslim grave, Pattani

A   T r u s t e d    C o l l e a g u e

Lost in the South, with Andrew Marshall. Photo: Jum Supattra.

Yala bombing 22 May 2007 Image courtesy of Khun Suraphan © 2007

​I have been fortunate enough on several occasions to travel with a very good friend and colleague, Andrew Marshall.
From Tungao-infested forest floors with communist rebels in the Philippines, to the leech-dripping wet-season uprising in Burma's Shan State, the hide and seek insurgency in Southern Thailand, GAM rebels' war of independence in Aceh, Bangladesh's cursed rising sea levels and coverage of the Asian Tsunami.
There were always laughs and dark humour, especially when things became trying. Not only a very talented writer, Andrew is a concerned human being and someone who I trusted implicitly. It is a special bond between friends when you know that however precarious your situation might become, one will never abandon the other.
​You can read Andrew's story from October 2007 on Southern Thailand here:
andrewmarshall.com/articles/reporting-for-the-sydney-morning-herald-on-the-muslim-insurgency-in-thailand/

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