Teachers, among other civil servants, have always been a target “de choix” for the insurgents in the South (assassinations, schools burnings), because they represent the “thai state” and because they’re the medium of the “thainisation” of the children in the South.
We can see that, unfortunatly, the terror campain is working : the teachers are fleeing. To the north. To Thailand if I may say.
More than 200 teachers in four districts of Songkhla province have asked to be transferred for safety reasons as they have been targeted by militants.
Soljai Wiboonkij, director of Songkhla’s education zone 3 office, said his office has been flooded with letters asking for transfers out of the violence-prone districts sent by terrified teachers since early this month, when the last semester ended. Education zone 3 covers four districts _ Chana, Thepha, Na Thawi and Saba Yoi _ which border the three restive southernmost provinces of Yala, Pattani and Narathiwat.
There are 208 schools and 2,700 teachers under the office’s jurisdiction. (Bangkok Post)
It looks like an administrative cleansing with an ethnic/religious cleansing as the background.
What will happen if Bangkok is unable to maintain a proper state apparatus in the South, because most of the civil servants refuse to stay there ?
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