Studies in religion and culture (Charlottesville, Va.)
資料類型
書籍=Book
使用語言
英文=English
附註項
John Clifford Holt is the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of the Humanities in Religion and Asian Studies at Bowdoin College.Soraya Jamjuree teaches at Prince of Songkla University in Pattani and is a founder of the Civic Women's Network for Peace in the Southern Border Provinces of Thailand.Hara Shintaro is a researcher and translator of Malay.
摘要
Since 2004, the violent conflict between Thai Buddhists and Malay Muslims has caused more than 7,500 deaths and 13,000 injuries in the southern border provinces of Thailand. This will be the first collection published in English to give voice to those who have rebounded from these profound personal tragedies to demand justice and peace.The ethnic and religious separatist insurgency in the southern provinces of Thailand is complex. Ninety to ninety-five percent of Thai citizens are Buddhists. In the southernmost provinces, however, Muslims are in the majority-yet they are governed by the Buddhist Thai capital in the north. In 2006 and 2014, the Thai government went through separate coups, resulting in differing policies to address this problem in the south, including a National Culture Act to promote "Thai-ness" throughout the country. In the south, this has resulted in a repressive and corrupt police force and military raids on Muslim villages, provoking the burning of schools and other symbols of Thai government, bombings, and even the killing of teachers and monks. The narratives collected here, primarily from women, testify that although the violence has been generated from both sides of the Buddhist/Muslim divide, the actions undertaken by armed forces of the Thai Buddhist state-including repressive violence and torture-have served as a catalyst for increased Muslim insurgency. These contributions reveal the fundamental problem of how a minority people can fully belong within a state that has insisted on religious, cultural, and linguistic homogenization.
目次
This Land Is for You / Roshida Dao' with Rohani Chuenara Whose Security Is This? / Ropiah Samae with Pateemoh Yusoh Justice Should Be Fought For / Yaena Salaemae with Soraya Jamjuree and Suraiya Wani A Mother's Hope / Masta Cheuma with Suraiya Wani Transition of Fear / Bunga Gantang (Pseudonym) with Asra Ratthakaran The Time Has Come for Me to Stand Up / Nada (Pseudonym) with Arida Awaekachi A Gray Memory / Saimah Che'nae with Khamnueng Chamnankij A Smile amid the Tears / Khluean Sang-amphai with Rusnee Kaseng Life after Liberation / Duangsuda Sang-amphai and Chitlada (Neelapaijit) Phiriyasat Still Smiling / Liam Chaibun with Duangsuda Sangamphai and Thanyathorn Saipanya A Mother Seeking Justice / Khamnueng Chamnankij I Am My Father's Blood / Arida Samoh Becoming a "Defendant" and Coming Back as a "Mr." / Al-Kahfi (Pseudonym) with Arida Awaekachi I Endure . . . This Is a Test / Burong Puteh (Pseudonym) with Sukkreeyah Bahe and Muallimah Sata I'm Fighting Because I've Done Nothing Wrong / Subaidah Doloh with Rohani Cuenara In the Middle of a Happy Forest / Phong Tae-iau with Marisa Samahae and Thanyathorn Saipanya Living with Memory / Thitinob Komalnimi Recovering Kuching Lepah / Yakariya Sapae-ing with Soraya Jamjuree and Aishah Timung Suffering Has a Starting Point. I'm Waiting for Its End / Saniyah (Pseudonym) with Khamnueng Chamnankij From the Standpoint of a Believer / Hasana Chelae with Amini Saidi
