<div> <div>Military officers tried to cancel a media workshop in the restive deep south, claiming that they were ordered to do so by their superiors. </div></div>

<div>Throughout Thai history, state officials, especially police and army officers, who perpetrated torture and enforced disappearances, have never been punished and have never admitted their crimes. This year a bill against the 2 crimes was completed which has been praised by experts. However, under the military junta regime, which itself is a threat to human rights, one must be very sceptical about the bill really being passed into law.&nbsp;</div> <p></p>

<p>Thai military reportedly killed two suspected insurgents and arrested three suspects during a raid at a school in Thailand’s restive Deep South. However, there are reports that another woman was also killed at the scene.</p> <p>Nearly a hundred military officers surrounded an Islamic school in Mayo District in Pattani Province at around 3 am on Friday in an attempt to arrest suspects believed to be hiding in the school, according&nbsp;<a href="https://www.facebook.com/wartanimap/posts/589562511145491">Wartani</a>, a local media outlet based in the southern border province of Pattani.</p>

<div><span><a href="http://www.khaosodenglish.com/detail.php?newsid=1418018631&amp;typecate=06&amp;section=">Khaosod English </a>— A military spokesperson has dismissed rumours that security officers locked a group of women and children inside a mosque while they searching for potential insurgents in the southern province of Songkhla last week.&nbsp;</span></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Col. </div>

<p>Activists from Thailand’s restive Deep South voiced concerns that the security measures in which a whole village was surrounded and villagers detained could lead to further violence after reported confrontations between security officers and alleged southern insurgents.</p> <p>A confrontation between the security forces and about eight members of an alleged insurgent group reportedly started around Thursday noon in Saba Yoi District of Songkhla. The 20-minute skirmish left two police officers injured.</p>

<div>Given the circumstances in the south where the draconian special laws (martial law, the Emergency Decree and the Internal Security Act, all of which violate very basic human rights to different extents) have been imposed for more than ten years now (compared to just six months for the rest of the country), there is no proper and official communication channel for the non-state armed groups (NSAGs, which despite their official protests are often referred to as separatists by both the Siamese colonialists/Thai governments and Thai media). </div>

<div>The Pattani court has ruled that a Malay Muslim man was shot dead by security forces during an operation related to the insurgency in the restive southern province of Pattani. The lawyer says, however, he has no hope in pursuing the case against the authorities responsible for the death. </div>

<p><span>(New York, October 29, 2014) – The Thai government should immediately investigate and prosecute security personnel found responsible for the killing of an ethnic Malay Muslim child in southern&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.hrw.org/asia/thailand" target="_blank">Thailand,</a><span>&nbsp;Human Rights Watch said today.</span></p>

<p>&nbsp;</p> <p>(New York, October 25, 2014) – The Thai government has yet to bring to justice police and military personnel responsible for the deaths of scores of protesters in Tak Bai in southern&nbsp;<a href="http://www.hrw.org/asia/thailand" target="_blank">Thailand&nbsp;</a>in 2004, Human Rights Watch said today.</p>

<p>On 7 September, the Pattani Provincial Court rejected an appeal by Rohima Huseng, who alleged that security officers in Pattani tortured her brother, Hasan Huseng, during interrogation at a detention centre in a military camp in southern Pattani Province.</p>

<div>&nbsp;</div> <div>The court has rejected an appeal to investigate an alleged torture case in Pattani on grounds that the 2007 Constitution can no longer be used to claim a citizen’s basic rights, according to the&nbsp; <a href="http://th.macmuslim.com/?p=810">Muslim Attorney Center Foundation</a>.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div> <div>On 7 September, the Pattani Provincial Court rejected an appeal by Rohima Huseng, who alleged security officers in Pattani tortured her brother, Hasan Huseng, during interrogation.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Hasan Huseng, a suspected insurgent, was captured by Spec </div></div>

<div> <p>Despite threats and intimidation from state authorities, Pornpen Khongkachonkiet, a human rights lawyer and director of the Cross Cultural Foundation (CrCF) of Thailand, stands firm on her claims about alleged torture and enforced disappearances committed by the Thai authorities in the restive Deep South of Thailand.</p> </div>