Restive: An update on [1] this story. "Police: 8 killed in Thailand's restive south," from [2] AP, July 2 (thanks to Maxwell):

PATTANI, Thailand - Suspected Muslim insurgents detonated roadside bombs that killed eight people, including one civilian, in two separate attacks in Thailand's restive south, police said Friday.

A bomb explosion in Yala province on Friday killed three soldiers in a pickup truck who were sent to fix a water pipe in a village in Yaha district, said police Col. Sawas Tiawirat.

On Thursday evening, suspected insurgents detonated a bomb and then shot at security forces on a patrol in Narathiwat province, killing a soldier, two security rangers, a village security guard and a village official, said police Capt. Pairat Kiatcharoensiri....

More than 4,000 people have been killed in Thailand's three southernmost provinces since an Islamist insurgency erupted in 2004....