Dr Puangthong Pawakapan is Associate Professor at the Department of International Relations, Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University. She was previously Visiting Senior Fellow at the Thailand Studies Programme, ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute.
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Bombings in South Thailand
Puangthong R. Pawakapan
While the Thai military government blamed the bomb blasts to the red-shirt conflict, incoming evidence suggests that Muslim separatist movements are involved. The bombings underscore the fact that the military government has failed to address the ethnic-religious conflict and the presence of Asian-based Islamic State (IS) networks in the south.