MARTYN AIM

THAILAND: DEEP SOUTH INSURGENCY

Former Narathiwat senator Fakhruddin Boto survived an assassination attempt in 2006. He was outspoken in his condemnation of human-rights abuses by the Thai Army in the southern provinces. Masked gunmen shot him as he rode his motorcycle home on a Sunday morning. The shooting paralysed the left side of his body. He remains a proud and respected man in his community and told me, "...the basic problem here is there are no human rights. We deserve the same privileges as other Thai's. We are not terrorists. When the soldiers leave here there will be human rights again."
Former Narathiwat senator Fakhruddin Boto survived an assassination attempt in 2006. He was outspoken in his condemnation of human-rights abuses by the Thai Army in the southern provinces. Masked gunmen shot him as he rode his motorcycle home on a Sunday morning. The shooting paralysed the left side of his body. He remains a proud and respected man in his community and told me, "...the basic problem here is there are no human rights. We deserve the same privileges as other Thai's. We are not terrorists. When the soldiers leave here there will be human rights again."