At the entrance to his restaurant, he sits behind a makeshift bunker, holding an M-15 assault rifle. HuaHui, a long-bearded villager, exemplifies the kind of self-appointed power that the militia system offers Buddhists. Many other Buddhists have also armed themselves, including a demure 38-year-old teacher, an acquaintance of Nison’s, who prefers a light Glock. Nison carries a revolver with him at all times. Today such community-defense units are ubiquitous in Thailand’s south. Most Buddhists in his village left, but those who stayed, including Nison, formed a neighborhood-security force. Nison claims the gunmen were Muslim and intended to send a stern message. “But they became less diplomatic when Buddhist people declined to leave.” The following month, Nison says, two men entered a convenience store operated by Nison’s father and executed him with two shots to his head. “First Muslim people came to our village and asked to buy our land,” says Suphorn Nison, a soft-spoken Buddhist in his mid-40s. The separatist movement, made up of mostly ethnic-Malay Muslims, roils the region with daily threats of sectarian violence and has prompted many Buddhist villagers, and even some monks, to take up arms in self-defense. …a deadly insurgency is terrorizing Thailand’s south. Thailand’s Buddhists Take Up Arms Against InsurgencyĪ deadly Thai insurgency has Buddhists scrambling for guns.
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