Muslim religious leaders from all nine subdistricts of Rueso District in Narathiwat took part in a peace march and prayer ceremony at the Rueso Central Mosque on Monday (November 4th). Their banner reads: "Islam is the path to peace. We reject violence." [Photos by Rapee Mama/Khabar]

Sama-air Yeeyoosh, far right, led a special ceremony beseeching Allah to drive evil out of the area, turn evildoers away from sin and turn them back into loving members of the community.

Students from both the Patareeya Anuban and Anuban Rueso schools carried banners proclaiming that the people of Rueso do not condone the use of violence against civilians. Their banner reads: "What do bombings bring? Misery for all Rueso residents."

A group of Muslim schoolchildren taking part in the peace rally hold a banner asking: "What did little kids do wrong? Why do you want to hurt us?"

The peace rally procession visited the home of police officer Pol. Sgt. Major Penpimon Jantamano. It was at this location that a truck bomb was detonated, killing a three-year-old boy named Sirithorn Sooreng and damaging as many as ten houses.

Nnie district Muslim religious leaders pray as part of a peace march and prayer ceremony at the Rueso Central Mosque.

Students from Anuban Rueso School march in protest of the insurgent violence that has plagued the Deep South with near-daily bombings and ambush gun attacks. The students' banner reads: "Rueso has no need for violence."

Sama-air Yeeyoosh told the Rueso area's Thai Buddhist victims that true Muslims don't condone violence and that those responsible for the violence were 'outside' the religion.

Along with their peers in Yala and Pattani provinces, students from the Patareeya Anuban and Anuban Rueso schools in Narathiwat also face the threat of violence from insurgents seeking to deny their right to education. Over the past two years, a number of Deep South schools have been set ablaze and both the teachers who instruct them and the officers who guard them have been targeted and killed or injured through bombings and gun attacks.