Thai Military Strategy in the Deep South: Surveillance State

Sophisticated new reconnaissance techniques set alarm bells among Malays

By: Murray Hunter

The Thai military appears to have changed its strategy in the two-decade-old insurgency that has cost 7,000 lives, mainly civilians, within the country’s deep south border provinces, adopting an aggressive new stance with new surveillance techniques and viewing the insurgents now more as criminals rather than separatists.

Over the past t…