EDITORIAL
Another sad anniversary of the violence in the deep South has passed _ quietly, as if the authorities were ashamed to mention it, as indeed they should be. More than eight years of combatting one of the very few active insurgencies in the world has produced a battlefield stalemate, but a continuing and murderous situation.
It is truly shocking that so many governments have done so little for so long about the biggest security threat to the survival of the nation.
The renewed strife in the deep South began on the night of Jan 4, 2004. That was the night of fires, as resurgent rebels burnt more than 30 schools _ their strange but defenceless symbols of the Thai government.
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