Conflicts in the southern provinces of Pattani, Narathiwat and Yala, close to the border with Malaysia, reemerged in January 2004. Since then, bombings and killing have been almost daily happened. many civilians and officials have become victims of these surges violence. News reports about these southern conflicts have been published and broadcasted locally and worldwide. Fueled by the issue of transnational terrorism, which is often associated with violence against groups with different religions or sects, most media view the southern conflicts as resulted from religiously separatist struggle of Muslim Malays.