… 26 bombs exploded killing six in a coordinated attack by gunman in Southern Thailand. The attacks appeared to target Chinese citizens celebrating the new year in all the Muslim provinces of Thailand.  I didn’t know there was a civil war going on there:

Akara said that besides disrupting the New Year festivities, the rebels wanted to show the international community that the Thai government could not control the situation in southern Thailand, thus underlining the rebels’ legitimacy as separatists.

I’m not sure civil war really ever solves problems.  Generally it’s the bloodiest, most horrible, kind of war because you are fighting your own people.  If your mother one day says, “I like things the way they are, I don’t want to split” she’s suddenly your enemy and your revolutionary friends are obliged to tear her apart.