The Malay-Muslim Insurgency in Southern Thailand--Understanding the Conflict's Evolving Dynamic - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Malay-Muslim Insurgency in Southern Thailand--Understanding the Conflict's Evolving Dynamic write by Peter Chalk. This book was released on 2008-06-10. The Malay-Muslim Insurgency in Southern Thailand--Understanding the Conflict's Evolving Dynamic available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Current unrest in the Malay-Muslim provinces of southern Thailand has captured growing national, regional, and international attention due to the heightened tempo and scale of rebel attacks, the increasingly jihadist undertone that has come to characterize insurgent actions, and the central government's often brutal handling of the situation on the ground. This paper assesses the current situation and its probable direction.
The Malay-Muslim Insurgency in Southern Thailand
The Malay-Muslim Insurgency in Southern Thailand - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Malay-Muslim Insurgency in Southern Thailand write by Peter Chalk. This book was released on 2008. The Malay-Muslim Insurgency in Southern Thailand available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Current unrest in the Malay-Muslim provinces of southern Thailand has captured growing national, regional, and international attention due to the heightened tempo and scale of rebel attacks, the increasingly jihadist undertone that has come to characterize insurgent actions, and the central government's often brutal handling of the situation on the ground. This paper assesses the current situation and its probable direction.
Southern Thailand
Southern Thailand - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Southern Thailand write by N. John Funston. This book was released on 2008. Southern Thailand available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This monograph examines the tragic conflict in Thailand's southern Muslim-majority provinces near the border with Malaysia. Although the conflict has attracted wide national and international interest, no agreement exists on the cause of the resumption of violence in an area that had remained free of major conflict for two decades. This monograph critically examines explanations for the conflict and traces its evolution from the early 1990s to the beginning of the Samak government in 2008. The study points to a wide variety of factors that were important in the resumption of the conflict, with policies of Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra being critical in determining the timing and intensity of the violence. These conditions include: (1) the resumption of an age-old conflict between Malay Muslims from Pattani, Yala, and Narithiwat Provinces against a discriminatory central government; (2) entrenched problems of criminality in an area far from the capital and with a porous border with Malaysia; (3) the disbanding of important conflict resolution institutions by former Prime Minister Thaksin, who then gave priority to hard line (sometimes extrajudicial) security policies; (4) growing Islamic religiosity, influenced by regional reform movements and international developments, including the example of extremist movements such as Jemaah Islamiyah; and (5) the growth of southern insurgent movements--which have never issued public demands and whose real leaders remain unknown. In this complex setting, no resolution to the violence appears likely in the near future, as Thaksin's main policies have been retained since the September 2006 coup that ousted his government.
Deciphering Southern Thailand's Violence
Deciphering Southern Thailand's Violence - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Deciphering Southern Thailand's Violence write by Sascha Helbardt. This book was released on 2016-04-29. Deciphering Southern Thailand's Violence available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Scholars have given questions about the perpetrators of nameless violence in Southern Thailand little consideration, leaving the motives that drive Barisan Revolusi Nasional (BRN) heavily cloaked in secrecy and speculation. This book offers a rare glimpse behind the veil that shrouds BRN-Coordinate. Using exclusive access to and detailed interviews with BRN-Coordinate members, this book analyses the communicative dimension of the insurgency. It depicts the hidden channels and organized violence that drive the regions enduring rebellion as well as BRN's dichotomous existence between silence and communication.
Tearing Apart the Land
Tearing Apart the Land - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tearing Apart the Land write by Duncan McCargo. This book was released on 2008-07-31. Tearing Apart the Land available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Since January 2004, a violent separatist insurgency has raged in southern Thailand, resulting in more than three thousand deaths. Though largely unnoticed outside Southeast Asia, the rebellion in Pattani and neighboring provinces and the Thai government's harsh crackdown have resulted in a full-scale crisis. Tearing Apart the Land by Duncan McCargo, one of the world's leading scholars of contemporary Thai politics, is the first fieldwork-based book about this conflict. Drawing on his extensive knowledge of the region, hundreds of interviews conducted during a year's research in the troubled area, and unpublished Thai-language sources that range from anonymous leaflets to confessions extracted by Thai security forces, McCargo locates the roots of the conflict in the context of the troubled power relations between Bangkok and the Muslim-majority "deep South." McCargo describes how Bangkok tried to establish legitimacy by co-opting local religious and political elites. This successful strategy was upset when Thaksin Shinawatra became prime minister in 2001 and set out to reorganize power in the region. Before Thaksin was overthrown in a 2006 military coup, his repressive policies had exposed the precariousness of the Bangkok government's influence. A rejuvenated militant movement had emerged, invoking Islamic rhetoric to challenge the authority of local leaders obedient to Bangkok. For readers interested in contemporary Southeast Asia, insurgency and counterinsurgency, Islam, politics, and questions of political violence, Tearing Apart the Land is a powerful account of the changing nature of Islam on the Malay peninsula, the legitimacy of the central Thai government and the failures of its security policy, the composition of the militant movement, and the conflict's disastrous impact on daily life in the deep South. Carefully distinguishing the uprising in southern Thailand from other Muslim rebellions, McCargo suggests that the conflict can be ended only if a more participatory mode of governance is adopted in the region.
