The South grows more violent each day, but still there is no comprehensive strategy / The situation in the deep South has deteriorated even further, with a series of incidents involving scores of local militants last week. The malaise actually goes deeper. Residents, officials, doctors, business people and others have become increasingly suspicious even of those close to them or who work with them.

REGIONAL PERSPECTIVE: PM’s emergency power: A Kiss of Death

With emergency powers, Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra is expected to move swiftly and ruthlessly to deal with the situation in the three southern provinces following the dramatic attacks in Yala last Thursday night. This is a march of folly that will surely further exacerbate the crisis.

Definitions of terrorism

Every age has its enemies. In the mid-20th century, fascists were the evildoers. After WWII, communists became civilisation’s public enemies. The bombings across London of July 7 have shown that terrorists remain today’s designated masters of evil.

UWSA prepared to assert independence more aggressively

It was supposed to be a gathering of some 200 diplomats, aid workers, journalists and anti-narcotics officials on the Sino-Burmese border to witness the historic announcement that this opium-rich territory would from now on be drug-free.