<div>Under the junta government, the peace talks idea is on the table again. The insurgent groups founded MARA, an umbrella organization to represent the movement in the talks. 2 unofficial meetings have been held in Malaysia. MARA has revealed important demands as a prerequisite before the real peace talks can continue. &nbsp;</div> <p></p>

<div> <div>Thailand made another positive signal toward the peace process in the Deep South when the police revealed that another elderly jailed insurgent will be granted early release.&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Pol Lt Gen Anurut Krisanakaraket, Director of Southern Border Provinces Police Operation Centre (SBPOC), revealed in an Isara News Agency report on Tuesday that the SBPOC will propose to the Justice Ministry that an early release be granted to Da-o Maseng, better known as Haji Da-o Thanam, a former member of Patani United Liberation Organization (PULO), who has been in jail for 1 </div></div>

<p>Separatist insurgents in southern&nbsp;<a href="http://hrw.pr-optout.com/Tracking.aspx?Data=HHL%3d8%2c86%3e8-%3eLCE593719%26SDG%3c90%3a.&amp;RE=MC&amp;RI=4432086&amp;Preview=False&amp;DistributionActionID=82666&amp;Action=Follow+Link">Thailand</a>&nbsp;should immediately stop their attacks on civilians, Human Rights Watch said today. Deliberate or indiscriminate attacks on civilians in an armed conflict are violations of the laws of war and may be war crimes.<br /></p>

<p>A network of religious leaders and human rights academics in Southern Thailand has urged all parties to the conflict in the restive southern border provinces to abstain from violence against civilians and called on the Thai state to make the southern peace talks a national issue.</p>

<div>To the filmmaker, Latitude No. 6 is just a line on a map, that when sliced, offers some pretty shots. Pretty shots are as deep as it goes, and the truth about the conflict is just covered up with 120 minutes of cringe-worthy, cheesy fluff and cardboard dialogue.&nbsp;</div> <p></p>

<p>A poll conducted by a think tank in Thailand’s Deep South shows that people in the restive border provinces are in favour of peace talks despite their distrust of state volunteer corps.</p> <p>The latest survey on how people in the southern border provinces of Yala, Pattani, and Narathiwat view the violent conflict, social issues, justice system, and peace process between the Thai state and the Muslim insurgent groups shows that 76.9 per cent of the local population, the majority of whom are Muslims, are in favour of the ongoing peace process.</p>

<p>A Key PULO member talks about his 18 years behind bars, during which he helped to further peace talks.</p> <p></p>

<p>Following revelations by WikiLeaks that the Thai authorities allegedly purchased a surveillance programme from an Italian firm, further leaked documents show that staff from the IT firm went to Thailand’s Deep South to deliver certain products. &nbsp;</p>

<p>Khaosod English: A former separatist leader recently freed from prison has vowed to assist the Thai government's effort to quell the secessionist movement in Thailand's southern border provinces.&nbsp;</p>

<p>18 civil society organisations in the Deep South region of Thailand have urged Thai state authorities to stop the intimidation and suspension of rights of civil society workers.</p> <p>At the Muslim Attorney Centre (MAC) in the southern province of Pattani on Tuesday morning, 14 July 2015, 18 civil society organisations, members of the ‘Southern Border Provinces CSO Network for Peace’, came together to read a joint statement to demand that the Thai authorities stop the abuse of rights and intimidation.</p>

<div><em>Women in the Deep South have used photographs as the creator of a healing environment for the community.</em></div> <p></p>

<p>The UN rights agency and the National Human Rights Commission of Thailand (NHRC) have pointed out that an increasing use of DNA tests to combat the Deep South insurgency may constitute racial discrimination against Muslims.</p>