Voices from Pattani: Fears, suspicion, and confusion

Author: Tan-Mullins, May¹

Source: Critical Asian Studies, Volume 38, Number 1, March 2006 , pp. 145-150(6)

Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group

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Abstract:

By December 2005, violence in the South of Thailand had taken the lives of more than one thousand people. In this article, the voices of southerners are presented as they were recorded during the author's two-year stay in Pattani Province and various Malay-Muslim villages in southern Thailand. Verbatim excerpts from tok imams (religious teachers), overseas scholars, academics, fisherfolk, and locals of various ethnicity and religious groups illustrate perspectives and frustrations about the violence. Fears, suspicions, and confusion are the most prominent emotions embedded in these conversations. These excerpts illustrate the foremost concerns of the common people in the South, among them, impertinent threats to livelihood security and peaceful ethnic coexistence in the region.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1080/14672710600556502

Affiliations: 1: University of Durham, UK

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