Over-reading the Islamist factor in Thailand’s southern troubles

• Main Author: Liow, Joseph Chinyong
• Other Authors: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
• Format: Commentary
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Political science
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/82319; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/39867
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

THE spectre of global Jihad and the infiltration of international terrorist groups in southern Thailand have become more ominous after a car bomb exploded in the border town of Sungei Golok on 17 February 2005, killing six and injured more than 40 people. Following the American campaign in Afghanis...