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Behind the Insurgent Attack in Southern Thailand
On 5 November, insurgents in southern Thailand staged their deadliest attack in years, killing fifteen people.
Crisis Group’s South East Asia Senior Analyst, Matt Wheeler, explains what happened and what it means for the stagnant peace-dialogue process.
- Matthew Wheeler
- ICG
What happened, and why is it significant?
On the night of 5 November, at least twenty gunmen attacked a security checkpoint in Lam Phaya sub-district in Yala, Thailand’s southernmost province, killing fifteen people and wounding four others.
Many of those killed were Village Defence Volunteers, civilians whom the…