06月27日

Understanding the Southern Thai Peace Talks

The announcement in February this year that the Thai government was engaging in negotiations with militants to try to broker an end to violence in the southern border provinces was widely hailed as an historic breakthrough. The reality is likely to prove a little more complicated. More than 5,300 people have been killed in an ongoing insurgency in Thailand’s Muslim-majority southern border provinces since 2004; from 2004 to 2007, this was the world’s most intensive insurgency after Iraq and Afghanistan.