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	Pattani - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mueang Pattani is a city in the far south of Thailand, near the boundary to Malaysia.
		It is the capital of the Pattani province.
		The word Pattani is derived from "Patani" in Malay which means farmer.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pattani (93 words)

	Pattani separatism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pattani (or Patani in Malay) is the post 15th century rendition of Langkasuka, the oldest Malay Kingdom of the Malay Peninsula.
		Pattani is the true cradle of Malay civilisation, with culture and artforms emulated to this day in other Malay states of modern day Malaysia.
		Pattani was already a bustling entrepot with diplomatic ties to China, Japan and Srivijaya at a time when Malacca was still an uninhabited jungle-clad estuary.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pattani_separatism (1431 words)

	The Manila Times Internet Edition \| WORLD > Thailand conflict rooted in centuries of Muslim separatism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-24)
		The people of Pattani then, as now, spoke a Malay dialect and maintained a culture distinct from the ethnic-Thai north that officially made Buddhism its state religion at about the same time Islam was taking hold in the south.
		Pattani first went on the offensive against Siam (as Thailand was formerly known) in 1563, attacking the ancient capital of Ayutthaya that lies in Thailand’s central heartland.
		While Pattani was never again to push so far into Thai territory, its golden age was just about to begin, lasting almost 100 years and resisting a number of Thai invasions thanks to the help of Malay allies.
	www.manilatimes.net /national/2004/may/03/yehey/world/20040503wor2.html (1124 words)

	Search: Pattani - FOX News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-24)
		Pattani is a city in the far south of Thailand, near the boundary to Malaysia.
		Pattani prov., S Thailand, on the east coast of the Malay Peninsula, near the mouth of the Gulf of Thailand.
		Pol Col Somjit Nasomyont, chief of the Pattani...
	search.foxnews.com /_1_OCT2603PTR7MR__info.foxnws/search/web/Pattani (517 words)

	Peace Resolution
		Pattani which was is generally believed to have been founded between the mid-14th and 15th centuries, grew within this political and commerical milieu.
		Pattani were obliged to send the Bunga Mas - the flower of gold - to Ayudhaya as a sign of tribute and loyalty.
		Since the Pattani state was annexed into Thai state in 1902, the political attitude of the Pattanians by their ethnic backgrounds has been on line with chauvinism, but now it has been criticized positively in term of Thai nationality to some extent by means of political participation under democratic system.
	www.geocities.com /bluesing2001/media/peaceresolution.htm (8570 words)

	Thailand Travel Hotels - South Thailand: Behind the bombs
		For the first time, the BBC has spoken to a man who claims to have been an insurgent fighting for Mujahadeen Islam Pattani, one of the older separatist groups that is now thought to have splintered into different factions.
		They want Pattani state back," he said, referring to the independent Islamic Sultanate of Pattani that had been part of British Malaya and was then incorporated into Thailand around 100 years ago.
		"Separatism used to be the priority, and religion followed after that, but with these new groups it's in reverse order - the new fighters seem to want to purify the area," he said.
	www.lostinthailand.com /thailand-news/thailand-567.html (707 words)

	The world's top pattani separatism websites (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-24)
		According to many historical sources, the ancient Hindu-Malay empire of Langkasuka was centered in Pattani, today’s southern Thailand, which encompasses of modern Malaysia states Kelantan, Terengganu and northern Kedah, as well as modern Thai provinces of Pattani, Yala, Narathiwat, Songkhla and Satun.
		It is widely believe that Pattani is one of the oldest kingdoms on the Malay peninsular.
		Prince Surasi, Rama I's prince, invaded Pattani and its Sultan Muhammad was killed in battle and his capital razed to the ground.
	dirs.org /wiki-article-tab.cfm/pattani_separatism (1069 words)

	Boston.com / News / World / Asia / Arab education of Thai Muslims under fire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-24)
		PATTANI, Thailand -- Waedueramae Mamingchi was educated for eight years in Saudi Arabia, studying Arabic and the precepts of Islam before returning to his home in southern Thailand.
		Historically, the three provinces were part of the Muslim kingdom of Pattani, which was annexed by Thailand in 1902.
		Waedueramae, who is the chairman of Pattani province's Islamic Council, said most prominent Thai Muslims including politicians and civil servants have been educated in the Arab world.
	www.boston.com /news/world/asia/articles/2004/04/14/arab_education_of_thai_muslims_under_fire?mode=PF (821 words)

	2Bangkok.com - Thai-language newspaper headlines
		Pattani from 1500-1849 was an independent domain having a governor do trading and has relations with Ayuthaya.
		The Kingdom of Ayuthaya tried to expand power to the south but could not win Pattani, because it had trade relations with many countries in Europe and Malaka, and also has religious relations with the head city of Malayu, so it was supported with weapons and people.
		The history of Pattani domain is the same as any other, seizing property (treasure), killing, a brilliant era and then an era of decline.
	www.angkor.com /2bangkok/2bangkok/thaimediaproject/warandpeace.shtml (1547 words)

	Thailand's Troubled Border: Islamic Insurgency or Criminal Playground?
		While the reasons for the escalating violence remain somewhat unclear, a combination of three factors seem to have been at play: a resurgence of local unrest; extremism instigated by outside forces and influences; and violence stemming from a confluence of vested criminal interests and official corruption.
		Western intelligence officials fear that the latest wave of violence reflects more than a resurgence of local unrest and may in fact be indicative of a region that is emerging as a new operational and logistical beachhead for transnational Islamic terrorism.
		For these radicals, the objective of a separate Pattani state will always be secondary to the imperatives of a wider jihadist campaign fought against infidels and non-believers.
	www.jamestown.org /terrorism/news/article.php?articleid=236740&printthis=1 (1528 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-24)
		Bangkok believes that these educational institutions, present in the southern regions of the country where the Muslim population is largest, have hosted guerrilla training courses led by Islamic separatists.
		The news is reported in the Thai daily ‘Bangkok Post’, which announces the forthcoming visit of the deputy education minister, Sirikorn Maneerin, to the regions of Narathiwat, Pattani and Yala with the aim of convincing the local authorities of the expediency of enrolling on the state register.
		Despite a government ban on these schools in 1999, they have continued to grow in number: it is estimated that there are 87 in the Pattani region, 28 in Narathiwat and 12 in Yala.
	www.catholic.org /printer_friendly.php?id=5806§ion=Cathcom (307 words)

	rainman's weblog (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-24)
		PATTANI, Thailand (Reuters) - Hundreds of troops fanned out across southern Thailand on Thursday to shut down the restive region after a day of carnage in which security forces shot dead over 100 gun and machete-wielding Muslim militants
		The impoverished region has a history of sometimes violent Islamic separatism, but Thai officials have insisted local gangsters manipulating drug-crazed youths are behind the unrest.
		The region is a hotbed of crime, feeding off a lucrative cross-border smuggling trade with neighboring Malaysia, but analysts say that does not explain why so many of Wednesday's attackers were young, Muslim and appeared ready to die.
	www.danchan.com /weblog/rainman/103331 (434 words)

	EthnicRelations-Malay-Muslim (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-24)
		Historically, the Sultanate of Pattani was forcefully incorporated into the Siamese state from the sixteenth century.
		In the nineteenth century, Pattani was cut off from the Malay states.
		In 1909, while the Raja of Pattani was removed, Pattani was split into seven states and later reorganized into three provinces, Pattani, Yala and Narathiwat, the current home of the Malay-Muslim, and local Malay rulers were replaced by Thai officials onward.
	www.busakorn.addr.com /ethnic/Ethnic-malay-muslim.htm (438 words)

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		In the speech, he said the protest was a law enforcement problem, not separatism with potential links to regional terrorism.
		More ominously, the Pattani United Liberation Organization, one of several separatist movements long active in the southernmost provinces, pledged to "use every means available" to "fight to free the land of Pattani from Thai colonialists." It was a reference to the Thai (Siamese at the time) annexation of the Sultanate of Pattani a century ago.
		The prime minister needs to deal with the separatism issue squarely and stop pretending that he's merely facing bandits, a mentality that presumably stems from his earlier career in the police force.
	courses.wcupa.edu /rbove/eco343/040Compecon/Tigers/Thailand/041111moslems.txt (917 words)

	Songkhla Province (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-24)
		Neighboring provinces are (from east clockwise) Satun, Phattalung, Nakhon Si Thammarat, Pattani and Yala.
		Songkhla hadn't been affected by the recent outbreak of Pattani Separatism started in 2004, however three bombs exploded on April 3, 2005 create concern the violence might spread into this province as well.
		The districts of Chana (Chenok in Malay), Thepa (Tiba), and Saba Yoi (Sebayu) were detached from Pattani and transferred to Songkhla in recent times by the Thai government.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/S/Songkhla-Province.htm (617 words)

	Pattani -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-24)
		Mueang Pattani is a city in the far south of (A country of southeastern Asia that extends southward along the Isthmus of Kra to the Malay peninsula) Thailand, near the boundary to (A constitutional monarchy in southeastern Asia on Borneo and the Malay Peninsula; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1957) Malaysia.
		It is the capital of the (additional info and facts about Pattani province) Pattani province.
		Historically Pattani used to be the capital of an independent (A member of a people inhabiting the northern Malay Peninsula and Malaysia and parts of the western Malay Archipelago) Malay kingdom, the (additional info and facts about Pattani kingdom) Pattani kingdom.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/pa/pattani.htm (131 words)

	Pattani Exiles Seek OIC "Status" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-24)
		Thai officials and other exiled leaders said Malaysia had been instrumental in getting other Muslim countries to endorse the push by the Pattani exile groups and their leaders to be heard at the OIC meeting in Saudi Arabia later this year.
		Thailand was granted official observer status by the OIC during the previous government's rule, as part of a strategy to obstruct the Pattani exile groups from finding a foothold within the organisation.
		A case in point was the uncovering of the militant document Berjihad di Pattani (Fighting the Holy War in Pattani) by Thai security forces on April 28 last year.
	www.talkaboutculture.com /group/soc.culture.thai/messages/442008.html (1406 words)

	ASIANaffairs
		The fact of the matter is that the southern parts of Thailand, inhabited by Malaya-Muslims have seen the rise of ethnic separatism as many Islamic outfits have forwarded the cause of secession from Thailand.
		This date back to the period of late 17th century when the Muslim kingdom of Pattani was brought under effective Siamese rule.New Thai rulers imposed their language and culture by denouncing the backwardness of Islam.
		This date back to the period of late 17th century when the Muslim kingdom of Pattani was brought under effective Siamese rule.The point is that the new Siamese rulers (Thai rulers) imposed their language and culture by denouncing the backwardness of Islam.
	asianaffairs.com /june2004/thailand.htm (1096 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-24)
		A suspect in the shooting of a Pattani court judge says nobody hired him or his accomplices to commit the crime _ they did it in the name of separatism.
		Mr Abdullah, a former student of Triam Suksa Witthaya school in Muang Pattani district, told police he was a lookout and helped in the planning, but not a gunman in the murder.
		Pol Col Somsak Nakhayokhee, deputy chief of Pattani police, said warrants have been issued for the arrest of the three suspects.
	www.seasite.niu.edu /hartmann/TranslationProject/a81_100/a82.htm (307 words)

	The Muslim World. November 2004 ISSUE
		News agency reports datelined Pattani, southern Thailand said: Most of the victims suffocated when 1,300 detained protesters were crammed into trucks after officials used water cannon and tear gas to break up a protest outside a police station in Narathiwat province, on Mon, Oct 25.
		The deaths occurred when the detainees, who were stripped semi-naked after their arrest, were being taken by truck to barracks in Pattani, a journey that took five hours.
		Subsequently, in the process of transporting the arrested demonstrators for further interrogation by the authorities to the Ingkayuthaboriharn army camp in Pattani province, 78 detainees died due lo a cause generally identified at this stage as asphyxiation.
	www.motamaralalamalislami.org /muslimworld/nov2004/nov2004.html (2230 words)

	Thailand Islamic Insurgency
		A wave of attacks in southern Thailand forced the government to stop blaming "bandits" and acknowledge, for the first time in decades, that separatist militants were operating in the country.
		The banned Pattani United Liberation Organization (PULO) had boasted in May 2003 that Thai security forces were "falling like leaves" as Muslims fought to free the south from Bangkok's rule.
		Historically, this region, consisting of the provinces of Satun, Songkhla, Pattani, Yala, and Narathiwat, has served as a dumping ground for corrupt and/or incompetent civilian and military officials.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/war/thailand2.htm (2399 words)

	IslamOnline - Views Section (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-24)
		The subsequent Islamization of Pattani replaced many elements of the Hindu-Buddhist culture, and the Muslim religious elite came to dominate the kingdom’s sociopolitical system.
		More importantly, in all cases of separatism, one can detect the clash between the dominant group and its cultural values and the subordinate one with its own religious-cultural identification.
		The group was established in 1968 by Kabir Abdul Rahman - an Islamic scholar disillusioned by the ineffectuality of the established Malay opposition in Pattani.
	www.islamonline.net /english/Views/2004/05/article03.shtml (2353 words)

	Thailand Daily
		BANGKOK - Six Bengal tigers mauled a zoo worker as she was feeding the animals in front of about 100 tourists, leaving the 18-year-old woman in intensive care at a hospital, a news report and a hospital officia...
		PATTANI, Thailand - Thailand defended yesterday the killings of 108 suspected Islamic militants earlier this week amid growing evidence that an Islamic separatist movement largely dormant for years is re-emergi...
		Thailand is defending its handling of violence in the Muslim south, rejecting growing internationa...
	archive.wn.com /2004/05/01/1400/thailanddaily (668 words)

	Thailand Forum > Thaksin Could Be Overthrown : Observers
		A series of violent outbreaks in the south provinces of Pattani, Satun, Narathiwat, Yala and Songkhla has created fears that Islamic militancy may be on the rise in the country though Muslims are said to be prepared for cooperation with the Thai government to bring development in the region which borders Malaysia.
		Pattani's Malays were reluctant Thai subjects, all the more so once they were cut off from Muslim communities on the other side of the new border.
		In the era of global terrorism, the jihad banner has been hoisted over these historic local tensions, suggesting this Muslim enclave in predominantly Buddhist Thailand is emerging as a crucible of extremism and a fertile recruiting ground for regional terrorists.
	www.thaivisa.com /forum/lofiversion/index.php?t9993.html (6807 words)

	Muslim Unrest Flares in Thailand - Global Policy Forum - Nations and States
		Just as residents of southern Thailand thought the New Year had come peacefully in spite of a holiday terrorism alert, a series of coordinated terror attacks has prompted the government to impose martial law and has renewed fears of resurgent Islamic separatism in the region.
		On Monday, bombs killed two policemen in the city of Pattani, near the Malaysian border.
		Historically, the Islamic Sultanate of Pattani is considered by some to be the cradle of Islam in Southeast Asia.
	www.globalpolicy.org /nations/sovereign/sover/emerg/2004/0107flare.htm (1106 words)

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		A Bangkok court was told the eight were members of the BRN Coordinate, one of the groups behind the violence in a region which was an independent sultanate until annexed officially a century ago, and sowed the seeds of separatism in their students.
		Sombat alleged the men were members of the BRN Coordinate, led by Sapaeing Bazo who has a 10 million baht ($240,000) bounty on his head, and taught the young to fight for the return of an independent Pattani, the name of the old sultanate.
		The teachers, all in their 40s and 50s, were arrested earlier this year and charged with using terrorism to divide the country, charges they denied.
	today.reuters.com /News/CrisesArticle.aspx?storyId=BKK298700 (312 words)

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