The photo just broke your heart: A little yellow backpack with a cartoon pattern, crumpled on the road in Narathiwat after a bomb. No matter how we in Bangkok have grown numb to the attacks in the deep South, the death of the five-year-old girl riled people up. Just last December, Deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwon voiced confidence the southern violence "could be ended". I called Romadon Panjor, a Pattani-based analyst and co-ordinator at Deep South Watch. After a staunch refusal, they now have to admit the Mother's Day bombings were likely the work of the southern insurgents.

Source: Bangkok Post September 09, 2016 23:26 UTC