Signs of Growing Islamist Insurgency Create Apprehension in Thailand -- The Jamestown FoundationThai and U.S. officials are preparing for another year of unrest emanating from the continuing insurgency in the Muslim Malay-dominated Thai provinces of Narathiwat, Pattani and Yala. Officials are also bracing for violence from the possible spread of the insurgency to neighboring provinces and the negative effect this would have on the Thai tourist economy. The tourist destination of Phuket has been receiving U.S. anti-terrorism support since 2004, when two bomb blast suppression blankets were given to provincial leaders by the U.S. embassy (Phuket Gazette, January 6). The fear of a potential widening of violence in southern Thailand has been manifested recently in a precipitous decline in foreign tourism. The number of foreign visitors to Thailand dropped 7% in 2009. Much of this decline was blamed on wary Chinese tourists choosing Taiwan as their preferred vacation destination (Thailand Business News, December 7, 2009).
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