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aturday november 10 2012 what malaysia s the star newspaper won t publish malaysia s the star newspaper published a particularly fallacious view of patani sent by a jinmei morinae on september 30 2012 a rebut tal was promptly e mailed to the publication the next day on october 1 2012 the rebuttal was never published and an e mail inquiry did not receive a reply a subsequent tweet to the editor wong chun wai on november 2 2012 did not generate a response as well so much for free dom of thought and the right to rebut in this partisan ethnic chinese controlled tabloid b elow is the re buttal that was not published by the star i don t quite understand the issue raised by jinmae morinae patani not a malay state sept 30 2012 in her letter she admitted that i t is true that patani was once a separate kingdom before being annexed by thailand and i t is also true that the state s population is primarily malay muslim yet she deemed it improper for the patani region modern day thai provinces of pattani narathiwat yala and four districts in songkhla to be referred as a malay part of southern thailand why is this so the malay race is not restricted to the borders of malaysia indonesia singapore and brunei ethnic malays make up 85 of the three million population of thailand s patani region plus the majority in neighbouring setul satun province bordering kedah perlis on the west coast the patani region traces its rich history to the ancient malay kingdom of langkasuka 2nd 14th century ad centered near present day binjai lima yarang in pattani province thailand worldwide ethnic groups tend to overlap international boundaries of course historically national borders realign endlessly over time but socio cultural groups remain in their respective geographies irrespective of ruling polity unless of course there happens to be ethnic cleansing in which case a predominant population is crowded out by another group today you will still find a large ethnic russian population in eastern ukraine an ethnic german majority in italy s south tyrol alto adige ethnic hungarians in north central romania ethnic kurds dominate where turkey iraq syria and iran meet and ethnic koreans are prominent in parts of northeastern china as for the patani region yes it is politically within thailand but it is malay in ethnicity history heritage language and culture you can still be a malay in thailand just as one can be a thai of isaan lanna khmer shan or chinese extraction note that thai in this context is more of a nationality than a distinct race or ethno religious group it is equivalent to the term malaysian to denote m alaysia s citizens the inhabitants of the patani region are hence ethnic malays holding thai nationality no contradiction there thai muslim is a misnomer since it encompasses all muslim citizens of thailand from chiengmai s haw minority to bangkok s pathans to the malays of the deep south these disparate groups have nothing in common apart from a shared faith jinmei s point that b y emphasising the ethnicity of patani s dominant population you are trivialising thailand s diversity is oxymoronic at best how can you celebrate diversity if you suppress the distinctiveness in this case ethnicity that forms the basis of that diversity in the first place posted by kijangmas at 8 48 am 1 comment sunday july 29 2012 caught on tape rolling ambush of thai occupation troops posted by kijangmas at 6 47 pm 1 comment wednesday april 6 2011 patani peace talks cause for hope will there be a substantive political breakthrough in the on off on again peace talks between the thai state and patani malay nationalists would patani nationalists accept anything less than total political separation from thailand after 109 years of socio political turmoil under the thai yoke would thai hardliners tolerate even a mild semblance of self governance not even autonomy and let alone independence for the patani region where will be the practical point of compromise or are the two sides irreconcilable in their narrative of and approach to the conflict or perhaps a point of convergence would be forged by the two sides as their respective societies find the conflict s current trajectory socially economically and politically untenable excellent piece below by anthony davis security analyst for ihs jane s an asia times online exclusive april 6 2011 thai peace talks come to light by anthony davis bangkok after six years of secret contacts disrupted by political turmoil and mutual distrust high level peace talks aimed at addressing the roots of thailand s bitter malay muslim insurgency are moving into a more open and substantive phase senior negotiators from both the thai government and separatist sides of the conflict expressed optimism in recent interviews that key issues should now be tabled while conceding that the secrecy and denial that have shrouded the talks to date have outlived their usefulness for the rest of the story go here posted by kijangmas at 12 22 am 4 comments labels peace talks thursday february 10 2011 the patani stance the patani united liberation organization do not command most of the battlefield combatants it is today more of a political advocacy group than a guerrilla movement pulo is the most eloquent among the many liberation groups in articulating the struggle of the patani people to rid the 30 000 sq km malay region from over a century of thai occupation posted by kijangmas at 12 59 pm 1 comment saturday february 20 2010 the last malay raja of patani the last raja of patani hrh sultan abdul kadir kamaruddin ibni al marhum sultan sulaiman sharifuddin r 1899 1902 his lonely and courageous stand against incessant siamese aggression which led to the ultimate annexation of his kingdom is one of the great untold stories of malay history the sultan vigorously resisted siamese designs on his land and actively rallied international political support to preserve patani sovereignty advised by a wary britain to avoid warfare he was deceived and abducted at gunpoint by siamese forces in a sham meeting the sultan was inexplicably charged with treason against the invading siamese state and jailed in the draconian phitsanulok prison he was finally released after over two years of incarceration when he purportedly renounced politics although siamese coercion failed to extract confessions of wrongdoings sultan abdul kadir personally led the patani malay liberation struggle against siamese rule and fought to regain his old kingdom until his death in kelantan in 1933 patani may have been subsumed under the thai yoke but the bloodlines of patani royalty thrive in the royal families of several malaysian states and nobilities of the nusantara with many descendants playing prominent roles in government and industry throughout the region posted by kijangmas at 10 53 am 5 comments labels raja of patani siamese invasion tuesday october 27 2009 brutality of thai occupation army mild sampling of thai brutality on unarmed young patani malay civilian minus the gory ending who is the terrorist again now see also the gersik mosque and sebayu massacres of april 28 2004 meanwhile malaysian pm najib razak has called for some form of autonomy for the three million plus malays of the patani region a huge chunk of resource rich real estate encompassing the thai held provinces of patani pattani menara narathiwat jala yala and parts of singgora songkhla kedah s old setul district now thailand s satun province may also be in this autonomy equation bangkok s the nation gave this well balanced opinion posted by kijangmas at 4 44 pm 18 comments labels thai brutality sunday june 7 2009 faq on the patani issue part 2 why are the patani people resisting thai rule the thais invaded patani in 1786 and initiated colonisation measures that culminated in annexation in 1902 and full political incorporation in the aftermath of the 1909 anglo siamese treaty the thai concept of nationhood is via complete assimilation in identity culture language lifestyle and mindset into a single thai identity as created by the phibun songkhram regime of the 1930s 40s and perpetuated by present day thai policies hence the patani people do not exist in the socio political essence of official thai nationhood the patani populace are forced to forego their identity language ethnicity culture and history and are expected by the occupying thai state to be thais modelled on the ethnic t ais of the central chao phraya basin just like any other repressed ethno cultural group in this world the patani people are resisting this attempt to subsume their identity and heritage the patani region is the last unliberated colonised territory in southeast asia the populace is resisting thai rule in their struggle to free their captive land from colonisation and from ethnic cultural and linguistic annihilation why do the people of the region want to secede from thailand the patani region has nothing in common with the thai colonising state the populace are malay muslims undifferentiated in language culture religion and mindset from their malay muslim brothers in malaysia thailand as a unitary state based on t ai identity and theravada buddhism is an alien socio political paradigm that has no logical rationale to own and occupy the patani region beyond some sort of war booty a vestige of the era of colonisation in southeast asian history has the patani people launched a jihad against the thai state this is not an islamic jihad this is not a religious conflict this is about a captive people the patani malays with their own ethnic identity language and culture resisting their comprehensive domination by another ethno cultural group the t ais the patani malays are muslims but islam is not the catalysts of this conflict in the same vein that the buddhist faith of the t ai colonisers does not define their agenda or mindset why can t the patani people live in peace with the rest of their fellow thais how could a people live in peace when its language its culture its very identity are erased by the colonising state how could a people live in peace when every single place name in its homeland is erased and replaced with alien renditions in the thai script how could a people live in peace when they are tagged as a wayward offshoot of the alien colonising race being called thai muslims on their own land would americans agree to being called southern canadians would the british be happy with the tag western germans would the japanese be amenable to being called archipelagic chinese would the thais themselves accept their race as either eastern burmese or western khmer why must the patani malays be the exception be the only ones to foresake their identity to a colonising force isn t this struggle too late a misfit in the modern world nationalist struggles are fought over hundreds of years over many generations a century is not too late spain was colonised and settled by arabs the moors for over 700 years from the 8th to the early 15th centuries but the spanish regained their land literally inch by painful inch in hundreds of battles and ancient guerilla warfare and resistance not unlike today s patani insurgency vietnam was ruled by imperial china on four occasions 207bc 39ad 43 544ad 602 905ad and 1407 27ad for a total of 1 070 years inspite of relentless chinese assimilation policies the vietnamese did not become chinese after a millennium of colonization china itself was ruled by the mongols for a century in the 13th 14th centuries and by the manchus for 300 years until the early 20th century the chinese did not become mongols or manchus and ultimately expelled these colonisers india was ruled by the british empire for almost two centuries until independence in 1947 indonesia was under crippling dutch rule for 350 years but reemerged after the second world war to expel the dutch from aceh all the way to papua hong kong reverted to china after 156 years as a british crown colony macau was a portuguese colony for four hundred years before also reverting to chinese sovereignty hence patani s century of direct thai rule does not in any way negate the legitimate right of the patani people for self determination indeed the patani malays will never be thais many are tortured others disappeared placed in concentration camps had their names changed had the names of their towns and cities altered had their ethnicity and language erased but they will never be made into thais there are better odds of the thais becoming a burmese than the patani malays becoming thais why must muslims kill innocent thais of all faiths no matter how legitimate and noble your intentions may be the killings started more than three centuries ago when successive siamese polities ayutthaya thonburi krung thep siam and modern thailand invaded the patani kingdom and subjected the malay populace to great hardships amidst atrocities and represssion the patani malays were at the receiving end of the violence for over three centuries organised resistance to thai colonisation began in the past 50 years as this is the only avenue for the malays to stave off thai aggression on their homeland most of the killings in the patani region today are perpetrated by the thai authorities and their hired hands hence the predominance of malay victims in the conflict why have the patani people not peacefully stated their grievances to the thai government all attempts at peaceful resolution by the patani populace were met with violent punitive measures by the thai state thousands of patani malays have died in their peaceful approach to self determination these include haji sulong abdul kadir and hundreds of other community leaders in the captive region successive thai regimes throughout this colonization period including the present government have maintained a non negotiation zero tolerance zero compromise stance with various patani nationalist groups and civil society movements indeed patani malays suspected of association with these movements would be dealt with severely by the thai regime via various instruments of state and the security apparatus including 40 000 troops and 30 000 police personnel and a myriad of other phalanges of the occupation forces why didn t the patani region separate peacefully how could the region separate peacefully when the patani people are not allowed to even discuss their grievances or present various political options the term separation itself is a trigger point for thai overreaction and punitive measures against any patani advocate of such a concept what do the patani people actually want freedom self determination the freedom to practise their own culture speak their own language take pride in their identity understand their heritage and history and to chart their own destiny how to achieve peaceful resolution referendum on the preference of the patani people either continue being a part of thailand or independence under specific mechanisms promulgated and enforced by t...