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Journeying to the conflict-ridden southern Thailand
The writers, who spent two weeks in three hot spots of southern Thailand, recount their experiences while covering the story. While Hui Yee had been to southern Thailand before, it was the first time for Arlina
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A common lament we heard from locals during our trip was “it sounds worse than it is”.
It felt like that, when we started our journey on June 15 just as Yala’s Malay Muslim population had emptied out of the city for Hari Raya, reducing many checkpoints along the roads to unmanned slalom circuits.
