From “Patani Melayu” to “Thai Muslim”

Jory, P. (2006)

Article / Letter to editor

A violent insurgency in the ethnically Malay Muslim region of southern Thailand has claimed over a thousand lives since 2004. Although the conflict between the country’s southernmost provinces and the Thai state dates back at least a century, recently the ideology in which the conflict is expressed has changed markedly. Whereas a generation ago the goal was “liberation” of the ethnically Malay population from the former sultanate of Patani, today the spirit of the movement is expressed predominantly in Islamic terms.

• Thailand

• All authors: Jory, P.
• Date: 2006
• Journal: ISIM Review
• Volume: 18
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 42 - 43
• Publisher: ISIM, Leiden