बर्ह barha Nordic Asia Research Community.

by Mikael Weissmann and Linus Hagström, The Swedish Institute of International Affairs

Thailand has been plagued by terrorists for decades, almost a century even.

The people of especially the three most southern provinces - Yala, Pattani and Narathiwat - lives like this: Almost all news from their part of the world involves bombs and someone dying. They attend funerals frequently. There are bullet holes in their kids' classrooms. And no one goes about anywhere after dark. These people live in fear.

Joakim Enwall
Associate Professor
Chinese Language and Culture
Department of Linguistics and Philology
Uppsala University

July 12, 2009

Introduction

Indonesia’s West Kalimantan province has suffered from communal conflict and at the turn of the millennium the Indonesian province became infamous for two massive cannibalistic riots. While the massive violence has not continued there have been smaller violent incidents with several people killed every year.