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Becoming Patani Warriors: Individuals and the Insurgent Collective in Southern Thailand
Authors:Marc Askew  Sascha Helbardt
Affiliation:1. School of Social and Political Sciences , University of Melbourne , Melbourne , Australia;2. Department of Southeast Asian Studies , University of Passau , Passau , Lower Bavaria , Germany
Abstract:Focusing on the case of Thailand's ongoing insurgency in its southern Malay Muslim majority region, this article examines the circumstances surrounding individual's choices to engage in violent revolt and their conformity and non-conformity with the norms and disciplines of the movement in which they operate. Insurgent-driven violence in Thailand's southern border provinces has attracted considerable attention, but little has been published about the people who become “Patani Warriors” (juwae). Based on the authors’ direct encounters with current and former insurgents and study of Thai official documentation and captured insurgent propaganda material, this article presents the most detailed information currently available on southern Thailand's shadowy fighters. We argue that there is no single type of Malay Muslim insurgent: this variegated reality defies the normative ideals projected in insurgent's indoctrination material while it also poses a challenge for the Thai authorities to define in simple terms those who oppose the state.
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