THAILAND-SOUTH-UNREST

Residents (background) gather near the body of a Muslim villager who was shot dead in a rubber plantation in Thailand’s restive southern province of Narathiwat on March 9, 2014. The restive region is one of three Muslim-majority provinces in the grip of a bloody decade-long insurgency that has claimed over 5,900 lives — the majority of them civilians. AFP PHOTO/Madaree TOHLALA