The air in Narathiwat is thick with tension, a community on edge as yet another incendiary event unfolds in the restless district of Rueso. A sedan was seen engulfed in flames on the roadside near the conspicuous Balo Bridge, a sight far from ordinary even for a place accustomed to upheaval. It was well into the evening at precisely 8:56 pm on the whirlwind night of July 5 when paramilitary operatives from Company 4608 were tipped off by the vigilant head of Moo 5, Bue Cho village. The sedan, abandoned and blazing, seemed not merely an accident but a summoned display, a cunning distraction in a turbulent game of cat and mouse. Officials, steeled by the gravity of previous attacks, descended upon the scene. Preliminary probes pointed to a mysterious void—no driver, no owner, only the haunting echoes of an incendiary plot. The absence of a legitimate claimant suggested the…
