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Published on October 11, 2007

Asae was hit in the head and leg, killing him on the spot. Police blamed Muslim militants for the killing.

In Pattani, the Southern Border Provinces Administrative Centre announced yesterday

that the government would help 1,000 residents from the deep South to visit

their relatives being detained in army camps in the upper South under a controversial government-sponsored reconciliation programme.

Several hundred male residents deemed "vulnerable" to taking up arms against the state have been rounded up over the past four months and sent to various army facilities to undergo a "re-education" process that was promoted as "job training" for young Muslims.

The plan was announced by Pattani's Governor Panu Utairat amid allegations that those who had been sent to these camps went against their will.

The Nation