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If you want to believe the current government of Thailand and off course you do, then there is a cease fire with the south Thailand insurgents.

They declared that 11 insurgents groups have stop fighting and any other groups that continue fighting would be eliminated.

To really point out how serious they were they managed to kill some more people and blow up a police station 4 days after they declared ceasefire. Maybe there is 30 more groups out there and the government need to talk with them as well? From now until today around 3500 people have been killed in the violence.

Let’s wait for another month and see what this is all about and if the government is just trying to turn our eyes to the south and not to Bangkok.

Yala is the southernmost province of Thailand. Yala is the only land-locked province in the south of Thailand, so it means that Yala is the only province in the south of Thailand which has no beach. The southern part borders Kedah and Perak of Malaysia. In Malay Language, the province is also written as Jolor. Its meaning is fish net. Yala is subdivided into 8 districts, which are further subdivided into 56 communes and 341 villages.

Yala is one of the four provinces of Thailand where the majority of the population are Muslim, making up 68.9% of the population. Also 66.1% of the population is Malay. Yala is the border province with many interesting facets: history, culture, and beautiful scenery. The province has a unique mixture of cultural heritage of several groups–Thai, Chinese, and Islam. The city centre has systematic town planning and is one of the educational canters of the south as well. It’s the province with great number of ethnicity which makes it different from other provinces.
The provincial tree is the Red Saraca (Saraca declinata), and the provincial flower is the Bullet Wood.

Festivals and Places to go:
ASEAN Barred-Ground Dove (Zebra) Cooing Contest Date: The first Saturday and Sunday of March of every year
Java Songbird Contest
The City Pillar Ceremony is held annually in May
Yala Product and Cultural Revival Festival is held annually on the first weekend of August
Khuean Bang Lang
Namtok Sukthalai
Bala-Hala Forest
Betong Town