Then on 28 April 2004. a number of militants mostly armed with knives raided police stations in Narathiwat pattani and songkhla. The raids ended in 112 people dead, five of them were government officials. Thirty-two of the knife-wielding militants were killed by the government security personnel at Pattani’s krue se mosque more damaging to the relations between the state officials and the locals and between people of diverse cultures was the protest at Tak Bai in narathiwat. The 25-october-2004 protest ended tragically with six protesters being shot dead at the scene while 78 of them died in custody after being loaded in army trucks to an army depot in pattani. These increasingly violent incidents could well point to a future trend of rising violence.