A Buddhist monk passes by security personnel at the train station in the troubled Pattani Province in southern Thailand. No credible group has claimed responsibility for near daily drive-by shootings and bombings, which continue unabated, despite a massive counterinsurgency effort. Yala and Pattani are two of three Muslim-dominated provinces bordering Malaysia where more than 4,300 people, both Muslims and Buddhists, have been killed in a low-level insurgency since 2004.
PHOTO: Damir Sagolj/Reuters
