I must say the response to this book's January 2008 soft-launch was overwhelming. Word of mouth was enough to generate literally hundreds of e-mail inquiries and pre-orders from readers worldwide.
To the purchasers, thank you. To the many re-order customers, a double thank you. This book was a labor of love (+ blood, sweat and some tears) since I began collecting obscure manuscripts and maps of the Patani Region over twenty years ago and finally got down to putting my thoughts and findings to paper a year ago.
Your stirring response proved that the world at large is interested to hear the "other side" of the story, to truly comprehend the logic and dynamics of the socio-political issues that have bedevilled the Patani people for so long. The Patani Issue must be discussed. Feel free to share your thoughts and lets have a healthy discourse on the fate of the Patani people and their captive nation.
Thanks again ...........
Saturday, May 17, 2008
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Great read.
ReplyDeleteHistory has been cruel to the Patani people.
What hope for freedom?
On what basis was and is Thailand's "claim" on the Pattani Region? Race? Religion? The Thais got the bigger guns?
ReplyDeleteLet them go. Enough.
Fantastic writing style. More a non-fiction suspense thriller than a dry political book.
ReplyDeleteOffer it on Amazon and Google Book.
Danke
Guenther H.
Dresden, Deutschland
Congrats. Great work on a complex subject.
ReplyDeleteNow I understand this whole "Pattani Issue."
The Thais have no bizness down there.
Jim C.
NC, USA
I'm a Thai Buddhist. What my forefathers did to the Pattani people was wrong. This injustice must be corrected.
ReplyDeleteDear Author
ReplyDeleteWe just ordered five e-Books. Thanks for the discount. :)
Glad to hear you're a USC Trojan alumni as well. Small world!
Sue
Trojan '96
Rancho Palos Verdes, CA
I'm a Patani exile now in transit somewhere out there.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the book.
Long overdue.
World .... please help us !
Pattani is part of Thailand!
ReplyDeleteWe'll never allow separation.
We won it on the battlefield fair and square.
**- Chad Sassana Pramahakasat -**
Sunthon said: "We won it on the battlefield fair and square."
ReplyDeleteNow that the Patani people fight "on the battlefield" to get rid of Thai rule on their land, why are people like you complaining?
You win something by force, then you could lose it by force as well.
Compelling book.
ReplyDeleteStrong parallels to our Kosovo experience.
Radi in Prishtina
I'm a visiting scholar at Prince of Songkhla University, Pattani.
ReplyDeleteThis book should be REQUIRED reading in this campus.
Thanks for your effort!
Pattani was annexed by Prathet Thai over 100 yrs ago.
ReplyDeleteToo long ago. This is Thai soil now.
thahan praan,
ReplyDeleteSo you think a century is too long?? Spain was colonized and settled by North African Arabs (the "Moors") for over 700 years from the 8th to the early 15th centuries. But the Spanish regained their land literally inch by painful inch in hundreds of battles and ancient guerilla warfare and resistance not unlike today’s Patani Insurgency. Imagine if the Spanish race think like you? (No mas, no mas, Señor, we are now Moors, we were Spanish too long ago. Be real amigo”).
You know what? Vietnam was ruled mercilessly by Imperial China on four occasions – 207BC-39AD, 43-544AD, 602-905AD and 1407-27AD – for a total of 1,070 years! But did the Vietnamese gave up and became “Chinese” after a millennium of colonization? No. With a thousand yrs of practice, now you know why the Vietnamese reduced the French and Americans to springrolls against all odds? China itself was ruled by the Mongols for a century in the 13th-14th centuries and ruled for almost 300 yrs by the Manchus until the early 20th century. Did the Chinese capitulated and became “Mongols” or “Manchus”? Of course not. They were fighters!
India was ruled by the British Empire for almost two centuries until 1947. Are the British there now as rulers? Indonesia was under crippling Dutch rule for 350 yrs but reemerged after WWII to expel the Dutch from Aceh all the way to Papua. Based on your logic, why should Hong Kong revert to China after 156 yrs as a British Crown Colony? And Macau was a Portuguese colony for four hundred years before reverting back to their Chinese brethrens. I can go on and on ………………
So, how long was Patani ruled by Thailand? Too long for you? Nationalist struggles are fought over hundreds of yrs over many generations. The 3m+ Patani Malays will NEVER be Thais. You can torture them, make many of them "disappear," put them in concentration camps, change their names, change the names of their towns and cities, erase their ethnicity and language and so on .......... BUT you will NEVER make them Thais. There are better odds of YOU being a "Burmese" than the Patani people becoming Thais.
Read the e-Book over the weekend.
ReplyDeleteReaction: WOW!
Such depth and granularity of thought over such an obscure issue.
Colonialism is alive and kicking in Southeast Asia.
Who will save the Patani people?
Michael
Los Gatos, California
What are the Thais thinkin'?
ReplyDeleteWhy hold on to this obviously FOREIGN land? Is this a form of politico-masochism??
Let these people go.
Boris in Boston, MA
I luv tis book.
ReplyDeleteFantastique. Got humor as well.
Thank you kijangmaz.
Kijangmas,
ReplyDeleteYou are a hero of the Patani people.
I only have one thing to say:-
THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU
for the book.
We will never be able to repay your deed.
Ameen
Yusuf Daoud al-Fathoni
Dahran, KSA
Salam KijangMas
ReplyDeleteWhat u r doing both for Malaysia and Pattani is simply amazing......
satD
Salam Kijangmaz(Golden Deer),
ReplyDeleteI hope this msg reach u in a good health.I open this link because ur name is the same as our Bank Negara Malaysia Logo which is a Kijang Emas. I was looking for the gold coins issued by the Central Bank/Bank Negara. Alhamdulillah (thank god) the net brought me to a better site.
I have a few questions to ask please:
Do the Pattani people want an independent state in between Thailand and Malaysia?
Will there be a political stability in a newly created small nation?
Will it be an Islamic State similiar to Iran?I hope not since leaders in any part of the world fancy using God's name to justify their terrible actions.I hate to see US/NATO army building another base near my country in the name of preserving regional peace.
Is the only solution is an independent state?Why not use UK models with 1st minister and Pattani Parliment.Someone somewhere will pop up and say hey Im the long lost son of the Pattani Sultan.(That will be me of course (",) ).Backed by some foreign forces and topples the Democratic Government.Just make sure there's not a lot of oil reserves surrouding Pattani.he2.
If the Monarchy can ensure stability why not use our model.Become the 15th state of the Federation.Yeah.But this will definitely strain the relationship built over the years thru various front such as ASEAN etc.But the Pattani people will be happy to write their nationality as MALAYsian.Lol.I like to kid so dont take me seriusly.
Salam brother where ever u r.
We are many colours.
But we are human.
Nothing more.
Nothing less.
Pen is the mightiest of force.
No wonder all religion is written by pen.
Ask a group of Pattani leaders to lobby world leaders.
Collect fund via MalaysianToday website.
The readers are sometimes very generous.
That I can vouch myself.he2.
1 of 6 billion said:-
ReplyDelete"Become the 15th state of the Federation."
15th? There are 13 states in the Malaysian federation. The Federal Territories of KL, Putrajaya and Labuan are not "states." What's the 14th?
Get your math right first before imploring others.
TQ so much Math Teacher for pointing my error..
ReplyDeleteBut I remember clearly answering my primary school test Negeri2 diMalaysia ada berapa?(How many states in Malaysia?)
And the correct answer is 14.
We Malaysians always consider FT(KL & Labuan) as a state.But being a Wiki junkie might beg 2 differ.
Federal Teritory is just a tech term as you have to be very specific in English.
The differences are FT x have Governor/Sultan and a state parliment..
Come on la Siamese..
Follow our example la..
When Singaporean x want to be part of Malaysia we let them go..
Killing is a barbaric act..
Peace out..