This country adopted a reconciliation policy that would grant recognition to the Yawi language and local shari'ah after a military coup that overthrew the former owner of the Advanced Info Service phone company.
An incident in this country in which 78 men died of suffocation in military trucks - after they were interrogated while lying naked on their stomachs in public - helped reignite an insurgency in 2004. Field studies of ongoing conflict in this country produced the books Mapping National Anxieties and Tearing Apart the Land by Duncan McCargo. This country adopted a reconciliation policy that would grant recognition to the Yawi language and local shari'ah after a military coup that overthrew the former owner of the Advanced Info Service phone company. The most prominent insurgent group in this country is the (*) BRN-C, which along with other such groups is mainly active in its Yala and Pattani provinces. Non-rebel agitators in this country include the anti-corruption Red Shirts movement. On and off since 1958, loosely Islamist separatist groups in its south have been attempting to form a separate Malay state. For 10 points, name this country home to the Shinawatra family.
An incident in this country in which 78 men died of suffocation in military trucks - after they were interrogated while lying naked on their stomachs in public - helped reignite an insurgency in 2004.
(Kingdom of) Thailand [or Prathet Thai] (the first clue is the Tak Bai Incident)