Word: malay
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rashai's feelings are appreciated by the Thai government which now forces all the officials appointed to the south to undergo a cultural sensitivity program in which they are taught Malay as well as Islamic culture and law. But after almost 200 years of Thai domination, such efforts may be both too little and too late...
...three provinces were once an independent state, called the Kingdom of Pattani and ruled by a Malay Sultan. Starting in 1787, an expanding Siam demanded tribute from the sultan, but in 1808, the people revolted. The Thai army crushed the revolt and the Thai king divided the kingdom into provinces and appointed Thais as governors. In 1909, the British signed a treaty with the Siamese recognizing Thai sovereignty over the area. Thus, saved from the fate of British colonialism, the Malays in Pattani were handed over to a more enduring form of colonialism-Siamese expansionism. Since then, the area...
From 1938 to 1946, roughly equivalent to the Japanese hegemony in Asia, the Thais enacted a series of laws designed to "integrate" the Malays into the Thai culture. All Malays were required to adopt Thai names as well as wear Thai dress. The Malay language was forbidden to be used in business or government, thus depriving the Malays of access to those fields...
Thai, the ones in the south are ethnically Malay. "It isn't just a religious problem, but a cultural one as well...
After the granting of independence to Malaysia by the British, Malay aristocrats from the Thai south appealed to the U. N. to allow them to join the Federation of Malaysia, but the new Malaysian government, faced with a "confrontation" from Indonesia and a fragile electoral division between the Chinese and Malays, disowned the irredentist movement...