Thailand’s Deep South is a conflict area where armed groups of ethnic Malay Muslims have waged an extended struggle for freedom from Thai rule. The area covers the present-day southernmost Thai provinces of Pattani (Patani), Yala, and Narathiwat and fourth district in Songkhla province.
Over 6,000 people died and more than 10,000 were injured between 2004 and 2014 in a formerly ethnic separatist insurgency, which has currently been taken over by hard-line jihadis and pitted them against both the Thai Buddhist minority and local Muslims who have a moderate approach or who support the Thai government.
Duayjai Group established in 23 January 2010, based on Songkhla province in south of Thailand by family members of one detainee of security-related charges, Pattama and AnchanaHeemmina. After PattamaHeemmina’s husband was arrested and acquitted, Pattama and Anchana, Pattama’s sister, have begun to meet and to know about other detainee families in the region. Duayjai Group found that people in villages were suffering from loopholes in the judicial process, for example language issue (people in Deep South use Malayu language while the official language is Thai), knowledge of justice system and judicial process, etc. Unfortunately, some of offenders are innocent as they are acquitted by courts later on.
I and the team are working to haggle with the prevention of torture and the access to justice of the Muslim Malays who are the majority of the people in the area, but a minority of the country.. And who is accused of committing torture is military and police officer with the authority of a special law. When it is revealed that actions tortured and accusing officials. That is done, it will make security sector is not satisfied. And try to edit or stopped publishing stories of torture. Officials have tried to intimidate me or organization to disclose these stories and said they would inform the legal proceedings, defamation lawsuit . Use the how to tell my friends to come out to say with me that I should not talk about human right violation and complaints about the abuse. In addition, there have been attacks on media online that I am member of the separatist organization, and want to destroy the State of Thailand officials.
When the review is different or opposed to other organizations. I was threatens to stop comments.
In severe cases, when I was complaints about the misconduct of the military authorities. Perpetrator send someone comes to threatened me at my home. This makes my mother and my sister worried about insecurity , then I have to inform the police station.
Or when I was complaints which agency one agency to operation is invalid. The staff with armed come to visited me at my home and tried to explain how to work. But that also makes me uneasy.
I found that the best ways to protect myself is the presentation of facts not distorted. And recording the situation that occurs when the feeling insecure through online media. And to inform the network party acknowledge our situation.