National Consultation Workshop on Safe Spaces for Women in the Southern Border Provinces
Event description
The year 2016 marks the 12th anniversary of the re-emergence of the violence in the southern border provinces of Thailand. Since 2004, insurgency and counterinsurgency-related violence across the four southern border provinces of Yala, Pattani, Narathiwat and Songkhla has resulted in approximately 15,374 violent incidents with 6,543 deaths (of which about 431 or 6.5 per cent were women) and 11,919 injuries (of which about 1,651 or 14 per cent involved women). Of these, 3,925 fatalities are Muslim (60 per cent) and 2,618 are Buddhist (40 per cent). A total of 7,152 Buddhists (60 per cent) and 4,767 Muslims (40 percent) have been injured. Government agents or those perceived to be the symbol of the “Thai State” – namely, security forces, civil servants, government-hired village-defense forces, and public school teachers – are prime targets for attack. Read more
