TO GO WITH 'Thailand-south-unrest-women-social' by Aidan JONES This picture taken on September 17, 2013 shows the three-year-old son (top) of Thai woman Mariyah Nibosu (bottom), holding a framed photograph of his slain father (name unknown), who was shot dead in 2009 by unknown gunmen while working as a village volunteer defender, at their home in the army-protected state 'widows' village' of Rotan Batu, some 20 kilometres from Narathiwat town, capital of one of three Muslim-majority provinces in the grip of a bloody decade-long insurgency that has claimed over 5,900 lives in the deep Thai south. The majority of the victims of this complex, vicious and highly localised war, have been civilians who are squeezed between the security forces and ruthless insurgents seeking greater autonomy from Thailand -- which annexed the deep south more than a century ago. AFP PHOTO/Christophe ARCHAMBAULT
NARATHIWAT: Widowed and blinded in one eye by vengeful rebels, Tungrudee Jaiin was left to raise four children alone in insurgency-ravaged southern Thailand.
A scar knotting her brow marks where she lost an eye to a bullet fired by suspected militants who had already gunned down her husband in a punishment killing.
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