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Somboon Khamhang
2017-03-27 16:02
แถลงการณ์ กป.อพช.ใต้
color:#1D2129">เรื่อง ทางออกพลังงานภาคใต้ต้องไม่ใช่ถ่านหิน
"ทางออกพลังงานภาคใต้มีแน่นอน..ถ้ารัฐบาล และ กฟผ. วางตนเหนือผลประโยชน์ของนายทุนถ่านหินบางกลุ่ม"
Revivalist
2017-02-18 21:03
The need for Maqasid al-Shariah
The world today is facing unprecedented challenges, and Islam has largely been an untapped well of ideas and approaches that can potentially address them. Although Islam is the religion of roughly one quarter of the world’s population, contemporary Muslim contributions have fallen well behind Islam’s historic legacy. Moreover, core Islamic values that include unity of humanity and creation, seeking knowledge, and establishing justice, welfare and peace, have found limited expression in modern academic disciplines and their application.
In their traditional...
Abu Hafez Al-Hakim
2016-12-24 10:19
TWO YEARS OF PEACE DIALOGUE - A small step forward.
Abu Hafez Al-Hakim
( The author is a member of MARA Patani's Dialogue Panel in the Peace Dialogue Process)
By 1 December 2016 the Peace Dialogue Process between the representatives of Thai (military) government and that of MARA Patani, an umbrella organization representing Patani movements, passed the 2 year milestone. Towards the end of 2015 in December the Technical Teams of both sides were discussing the Terms of Reference (TOR). Meetings and communications were conducted through Malaysian facilitation .
On 10 January 2016 the...
Arfan Wattana
2016-10-23 17:45
This 25th October will be the 12th anniversary of the Takbai tragedy, an incidence that is deeply felt by many of the Patani people, not only the relatives of the victims. Many people from Pattani, Narathiwat, Yala, and Songkhla went to demonstrate in front of a police station in Takbai district, Narathiwat province which borders Malaysia. People were protesting the arrest of six, individuals who had been accused of stealing weapons from the military. The protesters believed that those six people were wrongly accused by the police.
The Thai authority responded to the protesters with...
Shintaro
2016-10-09 01:06
I have been living in the Pattani town since 1999, when I was a master’s degree student of the Academy of Malay Studies, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. At that time I was doing my research on a comparative study between the local Malay dialect spoken there and the standard Malay mainly used in Malaysia.
I first watched the news on the September 11 attacks in a small restaurant, famous for its nice dish of chicken rice, on the road which leads to Prince of Songkla University, Pattani Campus. I had frequented the restaurant until the owner finally moved out of the region. Now...
DeepSouthWatch
2016-09-23 00:48
Zachary Abuza
There is nothing harder than a peace process after a protracted insurgency. And since so few insurgencies have the military capabilities to fully achieve their goal of statehood, a negotiated settlement is the most likely outcome. But that does not mean that a peace process will succeed. There are many pitfalls. In my forthcoming study of the peace processes in Southeast Asia, I found there are 20 factors that are essential to any peace process between a government and a sub-state insurgent group. While not all need to present in a peace process, without a majority, a peace...
Abu Hafez Al-Hakim
2016-05-19 11:04
Dissecting the T-O-R
Abu Hafez Al-Hakim
(* The author is a member of MARA Patani Dialogue Panel. The views expressed in this article are personally his and do not reflect the official views of MARA Patani )
The latest meeting of the Join Working Group - Peace Dialogue Process ( JWG-PDP) , the official name of the ( unofficial ) peace talk between the Thai (military) Government (TmG) and the Patani liberation movements (MARA Patani), was on 27 April 2016 in Kuala Lumpur . The Head of Party A, Gen. Aksara Kerdpol informed the meeting that the TmG was not ready to endorse the Terms of...
Abu Hafez Al-Hakim
2016-01-19 16:11
( This is the English version of "MARA Patani bertemu OIC - satu penjelasan" published in the MARA Patani web page on 18 January 2016 http://www.suaramarapatani.org/2016/01/18/mara-patani-bertemu-oic-satu-p... )
MARA Patani met OIC - a clarification
On 10 January 2016 the Secretary General of the Organisation of Islamic Coorpration(OIC), Dr. Iyad Ameen Madani unofficially met a delegation of MARA Patani in Kuala Lumpur. Dr. Madani was in transit on his working visit to this region.
The much "sensationalised" encounter stemmed from an informal peace dialogue process meeting between MARA...