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  • 16 JUNE 2015 - CHUAP, NARATHIWAT, THAILAND: A cache of three M16 assault rifles Thai Army Rangers recovered in a Muslim insurgent camp they captured last week. Thai Rangers, a paramilitary force of the Thai Army, discovered a Muslim insurgent camp in the village of Chuap, in Narathiwat province last week. Most of the insurgents in the camp escaped into the surrounding jungle, but soldiers captured two insurgents and recovered three M16 assault rifles. Two of the three rifles were stolen from the Thai Army in 2004. Investigators are still tracing the source of the third rifle. The Rangers took Thai media into the camp Tuesday. About 6,000 people have been killed in sectarian violence in Thailand's three southern provinces of Narathiwat, Pattani and Yala since a Muslim insurgency started in 2004. Attacks usually spike during religious holidays. Insurgents are fighting for more autonomy from the central government in Bangkok.       PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 16 JUNE 2015 - CHUAP, NARATHIWAT, THAILAND:  A Thai Army Ranger maintains perimeter security in a Muslim insurgent camp after Rangers recovered three M16 assault rifles in the camp. Thai Rangers, a paramilitary force of the Thai Army, discovered a Muslim insurgent camp in the village of Chuap, in Narathiwat province last week. Most of the insurgents in the camp escaped into the surrounding jungle, but soldiers captured two insurgents and recovered three M16 assault rifles. Two of the three rifles were stolen from the Thai Army in 2004. Investigators are still tracing the source of the third rifle. The Rangers took Thai media into the camp Tuesday. About 6,000 people have been killed in sectarian violence in Thailand's three southern provinces of Narathiwat, Pattani and Yala since a Muslim insurgency started in 2004. Attacks usually spike during religious holidays. Insurgents are fighting for more autonomy from the central government in Bangkok.      PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 16 JUNE 2015 - CHUAP, NARATHIWAT, THAILAND:  A Thai Army Ranger maintains perimeter security in a Muslim insurgent camp after Rangers recovered three M16 assault rifles in the camp. Thai Rangers, a paramilitary force of the Thai Army, discovered a Muslim insurgent camp in the village of Chuap, in Narathiwat province last week. Most of the insurgents in the camp escaped into the surrounding jungle, but soldiers captured two insurgents and recovered three M16 assault rifles. Two of the three rifles were stolen from the Thai Army in 2004. Investigators are still tracing the source of the third rifle. The Rangers took Thai media into the camp Tuesday. About 6,000 people have been killed in sectarian violence in Thailand's three southern provinces of Narathiwat, Pattani and Yala since a Muslim insurgency started in 2004. Attacks usually spike during religious holidays. Insurgents are fighting for more autonomy from the central government in Bangkok.      PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 16 JUNE 2015 - CHUAP, NARATHIWAT, THAILAND:  Thai Army Rangers and investigators display a cache of three M16 assault rifles Rangers recovered in a Muslim insurgent camp they captured last week. Thai Rangers, a paramilitary force of the Thai Army, discovered a Muslim insurgent camp in the village of Chuap, in Narathiwat province last week. Most of the insurgents in the camp escaped into the surrounding jungle, but soldiers captured two insurgents and recovered three M16 assault rifles. Two of the three rifles were stolen from the Thai Army in 2004. Investigators are still tracing the source of the third rifle. The Rangers took Thai media into the camp Tuesday. About 6,000 people have been killed in sectarian violence in Thailand's three southern provinces of Narathiwat, Pattani and Yala since a Muslim insurgency started in 2004. Attacks usually spike during religious holidays. Insurgents are fighting for more autonomy from the central government in Bangkok.      PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 16 JUNE 2015 - CHUAP, NARATHIWAT, THAILAND:  Thai Army Rangers and investigators display a cache of three M16 assault rifles Rangers recovered in a Muslim insurgent camp they captured last week. Thai Rangers, a paramilitary force of the Thai Army, discovered a Muslim insurgent camp in the village of Chuap, in Narathiwat province last week. Most of the insurgents in the camp escaped into the surrounding jungle, but soldiers captured two insurgents and recovered three M16 assault rifles. Two of the three rifles were stolen from the Thai Army in 2004. Investigators are still tracing the source of the third rifle. The Rangers took Thai media into the camp Tuesday. About 6,000 people have been killed in sectarian violence in Thailand's three southern provinces of Narathiwat, Pattani and Yala since a Muslim insurgency started in 2004. Attacks usually spike during religious holidays. Insurgents are fighting for more autonomy from the central government in Bangkok.      PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 16 JUNE 2015 - CHUAP, NARATHIWAT, THAILAND:  Thai Army Rangers and investigators display a cache of three M16 assault rifles Rangers recovered in a Muslim insurgent camp they captured last week. Thai Rangers, a paramilitary force of the Thai Army, discovered a Muslim insurgent camp in the village of Chuap, in Narathiwat province last week. Most of the insurgents in the camp escaped into the surrounding jungle, but soldiers captured two insurgents and recovered three M16 assault rifles. Two of the three rifles were stolen from the Thai Army in 2004. Investigators are still tracing the source of the third rifle. The Rangers took Thai media into the camp Tuesday. About 6,000 people have been killed in sectarian violence in Thailand's three southern provinces of Narathiwat, Pattani and Yala since a Muslim insurgency started in 2004. Attacks usually spike during religious holidays. Insurgents are fighting for more autonomy from the central government in Bangkok.      PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 16 JUNE 2015 - CHUAP, NARATHIWAT, THAILAND:  A Thai Army Ranger cuts a trail into a Muslim insurgent camp. Thai Rangers, a paramilitary force of the Thai Army, discovered a Muslim insurgent camp in the village of Chuap, in Narathiwat province last week. Most of the insurgents in the camp escaped into the surrounding jungle, but soldiers captured two insurgents and recovered three M16 assault rifles. Two of the three rifles were stolen from the Thai Army in 2004. Investigators are still tracing the source of the third rifle. The Rangers took Thai media into the camp Tuesday. About 6,000 people have been killed in sectarian violence in Thailand's three southern provinces of Narathiwat, Pattani and Yala since a Muslim insurgency started in 2004. Attacks usually spike during religious holidays. Insurgents are fighting for more autonomy from the central government in Bangkok.      PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 16 JUNE 2015 - CHUAP, NARATHIWAT, THAILAND:  A Thai Army Ranger cuts a trail into a Muslim insurgent camp. Thai Rangers, a paramilitary force of the Thai Army, discovered a Muslim insurgent camp in the village of Chuap, in Narathiwat province last week. Most of the insurgents in the camp escaped into the surrounding jungle, but soldiers captured two insurgents and recovered three M16 assault rifles. Two of the three rifles were stolen from the Thai Army in 2004. Investigators are still tracing the source of the third rifle. The Rangers took Thai media into the camp Tuesday. About 6,000 people have been killed in sectarian violence in Thailand's three southern provinces of Narathiwat, Pattani and Yala since a Muslim insurgency started in 2004. Attacks usually spike during religious holidays. Insurgents are fighting for more autonomy from the central government in Bangkok.      PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 17 AUGUST 2009 -- PHOENIX, AZ: Phoenix resident Christopher Broughton carried a military style AR-15 type rifle during the rally opposed to Obama. About 5,000 people were expected to demonstrate in favor of President Obama's health care proposals. Nearly 1,500 showed up to demonstrate against the President.  PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 17 AUGUST 2009 -- PHOENIX, AZ: Phoenix resident Christopher Broughton carried a military style AR-15 type rifle during the rally opposed to Obama. About 5,000 people were expected to demonstrate in favor of President Obama's health care proposals. Nearly 1,500 showed up to demonstrate against the President.  PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 17 AUGUST 2009 -- PHOENIX, AZ: Phoenix resident Christopher Broughton carried a military style AR-15 type rifle during the rally opposed to Obama. About 5,000 people were expected to demonstrate in favor of President Obama's health care proposals. Nearly 1,500 showed up to demonstrate against the President.  PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 17 AUGUST 2009 -- PHOENIX, AZ: Phoenix resident Christopher Broughton carried a military style AR-15 type rifle during the rally opposed to Obama. About 5,000 people were expected to demonstrate in favor of President Obama's health care proposals. Nearly 1,500 showed up to demonstrate against the President.  PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 17 JUNE 2015 - RANGAE, NARATHIWAT, THAILAND:  A Thai woman Ranger drills with an HK33 Assault Rifle. There are 5 platoons of women Rangers serving in Thailand's restive Deep South. They generally perform security missions at large public events and do public outreach missions, like home wellness checks and delivering food and medicine into rural communities. The medics frequently work in civilian clothes because the Rangers found people are more relaxed around them when they're in civilian clothes. About 6,000 people have been killed in sectarian violence in Thailand's three southern provinces of Narathiwat, Pattani and Yala since a Muslim insurgency started in 2004. Attacks usually spike during religious holidays. Insurgents are fighting for more autonomy from the central government in Bangkok.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 10 JANUARY 2015 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: A Thai child handles a M-16 assault rifle during Children's Day celebrations at a Royal Thai Army base in Bangkok. National Children’s Day falls on the second Saturday of the year. Thai government agencies sponsor child friendly events and the military usually opens army bases to children, who come to play on tanks and artillery pieces. This year Thai Prime Minister General Prayuth Chan-ocha, hosted several events at Government House, the Prime Minister's office.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 17 JUNE 2015 - RANGAE, NARATHIWAT, THAILAND:  A Thai woman Ranger drills with an HK33 Assault Rifle. There are 5 platoons of women Rangers serving in Thailand's restive Deep South. They generally perform security missions at large public events and do public outreach missions, like home wellness checks and delivering food and medicine into rural communities. The medics frequently work in civilian clothes because the Rangers found people are more relaxed around them when they're in civilian clothes. About 6,000 people have been killed in sectarian violence in Thailand's three southern provinces of Narathiwat, Pattani and Yala since a Muslim insurgency started in 2004. Attacks usually spike during religious holidays. Insurgents are fighting for more autonomy from the central government in Bangkok.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 14 JANUARY 2017 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: A Thai soldier helps a child hold an empty Royal Thai Army  M-16A1 assault rifle during Children's Day activities at the King's Guard, 2nd Cavalry Division base in Bangkok. Thailand National Children's Day is celebrated on the second Saturday in January. Known as "Wan Dek" in Thailand, Children’s Day is celebrated to give children the opportunity to have fun and to create awareness about their significant role towards the development of the country. Many government offices open to tours and military bases hold special children's day events. It was established as a holiday in 1955.       PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 14 JANUARY 2017 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: A child aims an empty Royal Thai Army  TAR-21 assault rifle during Children's Day activities at the King's Guard, 2nd Cavalry Division base in Bangkok. Thailand National Children's Day is celebrated on the second Saturday in January. Known as "Wan Dek" in Thailand, Children’s Day is celebrated to give children the opportunity to have fun and to create awareness about their significant role towards the development of the country. Many government offices open to tours and military bases hold special children's day events. It was established as a holiday in 1955.       PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 14 JANUARY 2017 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: A child aims an empty Royal Thai Army  TAR-21 assault rifle during Children's Day activities at the King's Guard, 2nd Cavalry Division base in Bangkok. Thailand National Children's Day is celebrated on the second Saturday in January. Known as "Wan Dek" in Thailand, Children’s Day is celebrated to give children the opportunity to have fun and to create awareness about their significant role towards the development of the country. Many government offices open to tours and military bases hold special children's day events. It was established as a holiday in 1955.       PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 14 JANUARY 2017 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: A Thai soldier helps a child hold an empty Royal Thai Army  M-16A1 assault rifle during Children's Day activities at the King's Guard, 2nd Cavalry Division base in Bangkok. Thailand National Children's Day is celebrated on the second Saturday in January. Known as "Wan Dek" in Thailand, Children’s Day is celebrated to give children the opportunity to have fun and to create awareness about their significant role towards the development of the country. Many government offices open to tours and military bases hold special children's day events. It was established as a holiday in 1955.       PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 14 JANUARY 2017 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: A child aims an empty Royal Thai Army  TAR-21 assault rifle during Children's Day activities at the King's Guard, 2nd Cavalry Division base in Bangkok. Thailand National Children's Day is celebrated on the second Saturday in January. Known as "Wan Dek" in Thailand, Children’s Day is celebrated to give children the opportunity to have fun and to create awareness about their significant role towards the development of the country. Many government offices open to tours and military bases hold special children's day events. It was established as a holiday in 1955.       PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 17 JUNE 2015 - RANGAE, NARATHIWAT, THAILAND: Thai women Rangers drill with HK33 Assault Rifles. There are 5 platoons of women Rangers serving in Thailand's restive Deep South. They generally perform security missions at large public events and do public outreach missions, like home wellness checks and delivering food and medicine into rural communities. The medics frequently work in civilian clothes because the Rangers found people are more relaxed around them when they're in civilian clothes. About 6,000 people have been killed in sectarian violence in Thailand's three southern provinces of Narathiwat, Pattani and Yala since a Muslim insurgency started in 2004. Attacks usually spike during religious holidays. Insurgents are fighting for more autonomy from the central government in Bangkok.     PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 17 JUNE 2015 - RANGAE, NARATHIWAT, THAILAND: Thai women Rangers drill with HK33 Assault Rifles. There are 5 platoons of women Rangers serving in Thailand's restive Deep South. They generally perform security missions at large public events and do public outreach missions, like home wellness checks and delivering food and medicine into rural communities. The medics frequently work in civilian clothes because the Rangers found people are more relaxed around them when they're in civilian clothes. About 6,000 people have been killed in sectarian violence in Thailand's three southern provinces of Narathiwat, Pattani and Yala since a Muslim insurgency started in 2004. Attacks usually spike during religious holidays. Insurgents are fighting for more autonomy from the central government in Bangkok.     PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 17 JUNE 2015 - RANGAE, NARATHIWAT, THAILAND: Thai women Rangers drill with HK33 Assault Rifles. There are 5 platoons of women Rangers serving in Thailand's restive Deep South. They generally perform security missions at large public events and do public outreach missions, like home wellness checks and delivering food and medicine into rural communities. The medics frequently work in civilian clothes because the Rangers found people are more relaxed around them when they're in civilian clothes. About 6,000 people have been killed in sectarian violence in Thailand's three southern provinces of Narathiwat, Pattani and Yala since a Muslim insurgency started in 2004. Attacks usually spike during religious holidays. Insurgents are fighting for more autonomy from the central government in Bangkok.     PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 17 JUNE 2015 - RANGAE, NARATHIWAT, THAILAND: Thai women Rangers drill with HK33 Assault Rifles. There are 5 platoons of women Rangers serving in Thailand's restive Deep South. They generally perform security missions at large public events and do public outreach missions, like home wellness checks and delivering food and medicine into rural communities. The medics frequently work in civilian clothes because the Rangers found people are more relaxed around them when they're in civilian clothes. About 6,000 people have been killed in sectarian violence in Thailand's three southern provinces of Narathiwat, Pattani and Yala since a Muslim insurgency started in 2004. Attacks usually spike during religious holidays. Insurgents are fighting for more autonomy from the central government in Bangkok.     PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 17 JUNE 2015 - RANGAE, NARATHIWAT, THAILAND: Thai women Rangers drill with HK33 Assault Rifles. There are 5 platoons of women Rangers serving in Thailand's restive Deep South. They generally perform security missions at large public events and do public outreach missions, like home wellness checks and delivering food and medicine into rural communities. The medics frequently work in civilian clothes because the Rangers found people are more relaxed around them when they're in civilian clothes. About 6,000 people have been killed in sectarian violence in Thailand's three southern provinces of Narathiwat, Pattani and Yala since a Muslim insurgency started in 2004. Attacks usually spike during religious holidays. Insurgents are fighting for more autonomy from the central government in Bangkok.     PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 17 JUNE 2015 - RANGAE, NARATHIWAT, THAILAND: Thai women Rangers drill with HK33 Assault Rifles. There are 5 platoons of women Rangers serving in Thailand's restive Deep South. They generally perform security missions at large public events and do public outreach missions, like home wellness checks and delivering food and medicine into rural communities. The medics frequently work in civilian clothes because the Rangers found people are more relaxed around them when they're in civilian clothes. About 6,000 people have been killed in sectarian violence in Thailand's three southern provinces of Narathiwat, Pattani and Yala since a Muslim insurgency started in 2004. Attacks usually spike during religious holidays. Insurgents are fighting for more autonomy from the central government in Bangkok.     PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 17 JUNE 2015 - RANGAE, NARATHIWAT, THAILAND: Thai women Rangers drill with HK33 Assault Rifles. There are 5 platoons of women Rangers serving in Thailand's restive Deep South. They generally perform security missions at large public events and do public outreach missions, like home wellness checks and delivering food and medicine into rural communities. The medics frequently work in civilian clothes because the Rangers found people are more relaxed around them when they're in civilian clothes. About 6,000 people have been killed in sectarian violence in Thailand's three southern provinces of Narathiwat, Pattani and Yala since a Muslim insurgency started in 2004. Attacks usually spike during religious holidays. Insurgents are fighting for more autonomy from the central government in Bangkok.     PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 17 JUNE 2015 - RANGAE, NARATHIWAT, THAILAND: Thai women Rangers drill with HK33 Assault Rifles. There are 5 platoons of women Rangers serving in Thailand's restive Deep South. They generally perform security missions at large public events and do public outreach missions, like home wellness checks and delivering food and medicine into rural communities. The medics frequently work in civilian clothes because the Rangers found people are more relaxed around them when they're in civilian clothes. About 6,000 people have been killed in sectarian violence in Thailand's three southern provinces of Narathiwat, Pattani and Yala since a Muslim insurgency started in 2004. Attacks usually spike during religious holidays. Insurgents are fighting for more autonomy from the central government in Bangkok.     PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 17 JUNE 2015 - RANGAE, NARATHIWAT, THAILAND: Thai women Rangers drill with HK33 Assault Rifles. There are 5 platoons of women Rangers serving in Thailand's restive Deep South. They generally perform security missions at large public events and do public outreach missions, like home wellness checks and delivering food and medicine into rural communities. The medics frequently work in civilian clothes because the Rangers found people are more relaxed around them when they're in civilian clothes. About 6,000 people have been killed in sectarian violence in Thailand's three southern provinces of Narathiwat, Pattani and Yala since a Muslim insurgency started in 2004. Attacks usually spike during religious holidays. Insurgents are fighting for more autonomy from the central government in Bangkok.     PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 17 JUNE 2015 - RANGAE, NARATHIWAT, THAILAND: Thai women Rangers drill with HK33 Assault Rifles. There are 5 platoons of women Rangers serving in Thailand's restive Deep South. They generally perform security missions at large public events and do public outreach missions, like home wellness checks and delivering food and medicine into rural communities. The medics frequently work in civilian clothes because the Rangers found people are more relaxed around them when they're in civilian clothes. About 6,000 people have been killed in sectarian violence in Thailand's three southern provinces of Narathiwat, Pattani and Yala since a Muslim insurgency started in 2004. Attacks usually spike during religious holidays. Insurgents are fighting for more autonomy from the central government in Bangkok.     PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 31 OCTOBER 2012 - YARANG, PATTANI, THAILAND:  Soldiers M16 rifles rest against a door in Wat Kohwai before soldiers escorted members of the temple to Yala for an Ok Phansa procession. Ok Phansa marks the end of the Buddhist 'Lent' and falls on the full moon of the eleventh lunar month (October). It's a day of joyful celebration and merit-making. For the members of Wat Kohwai, in Yarang District of Pattani, it was a even more special because it was the first time in eight years they've been able to celebrate Ok Phansa. The Buddhist community is surrounded by Muslim villages and it's been too dangerous to hold the boisterous celebration because of the Muslim insurgency that is very active in this area. This the year the Thai army sent a special group of soldiers to secure the village and accompany the villagers on their procession to Yala, a city  about 20 miles away.  PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 27 OCTOBER 2012 - SUNGAI KOLOK, NARATHIWAT, THAILAND:     Civil defense volunteers armed with M16 rifles escort a train conductor past Muslim passengers on a northbound train out of Sungai Kolok, Thailand. Sungai Kolok has been a center of extremist violence. Several car bombs have been detonated in the city, which is on the Malaysian border and very popular with Malaysian tourists. More than 5,000 people have been killed and over 9,000 hurt in more than 11,000 incidents, or about 3.5 a day, in Thailand's three southernmost provinces and four districts of Songkhla since the insurgent violence erupted in January 2004, according to Deep South Watch, an independent research organization that monitors violence in Thailand's deep south region that borders Malaysia.   PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 27 OCTOBER 2012 - SUNGAI KOLOK, NARATHIWAT, THAILAND:     Defense volunteers' M16 rifles on a northbound train from Sungai Kolok, Thailand. Sungai Kolok has been a center of extremist violence. Several car bombs have been detonated in the city, which is on the Malaysian border and very popular with Malaysian tourists. More than 5,000 people have been killed and over 9,000 hurt in more than 11,000 incidents, or about 3.5 a day, in Thailand's three southernmost provinces and four districts of Songkhla since the insurgent violence erupted in January 2004, according to Deep South Watch, an independent research organization that monitors violence in Thailand's deep south region that borders Malaysia.   PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 27 OCTOBER 2012 - SUNGAI KOLOK, NARATHIWAT, THAILAND: Thai Army Ranger providing security on the train line between Sungai Kolok and Sungai Padi. Sungai Kolok has been a center of extremist violence. Several car bombs have been detonated in the city, which is on the Malaysian border and very popular with Malaysian tourists. More than 5,000 people have been killed and over 9,000 hurt in more than 11,000 incidents, or about 3.5 a day, in Thailand's three southernmost provinces and four districts of Songkhla since the insurgent violence erupted in January 2004, according to Deep South Watch, an independent research organization that monitors violence in Thailand's deep south region that borders Malaysia.   PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 27 OCTOBER 2012 - SUNGAI KOLOK, NARATHIWAT, THAILAND:     A drink vendor walks past a community defense volunteer on a northbound train out of Sungai Kolok, Thailand. Sungai Kolok has been a center of extremist violence. Several car bombs have been detonated in the city, which is on the Malaysian border and very popular with Malaysian tourists. More than 5,000 people have been killed and over 9,000 hurt in more than 11,000 incidents, or about 3.5 a day, in Thailand's three southernmost provinces and four districts of Songkhla since the insurgent violence erupted in January 2004, according to Deep South Watch, an independent research organization that monitors violence in Thailand's deep south region that borders Malaysia.   PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 27 OCTOBER 2012 - SUNGAI KOLOK, NARATHIWAT, THAILAND: Thai Army Ranger providing security on the train line between Sungai Kolok and Sungai Padi. Sungai Kolok has been a center of extremist violence. Several car bombs have been detonated in the city, which is on the Malaysian border and very popular with Malaysian tourists. More than 5,000 people have been killed and over 9,000 hurt in more than 11,000 incidents, or about 3.5 a day, in Thailand's three southernmost provinces and four districts of Songkhla since the insurgent violence erupted in January 2004, according to Deep South Watch, an independent research organization that monitors violence in Thailand's deep south region that borders Malaysia.   PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 09 JANUARY 2016 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: A Thai boy plays with an Army IMI Tavor TAR-21 during Children's Day festivities at the Royal  Thai Army's Palace Guard, 2nd Division Cavalry Base in Bangkok. National Children’s Day falls on the second Saturday of the year. Thai government agencies sponsor child friendly events and the military usually opens army bases to children, who come to play on tanks and artillery pieces.          PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 05 FEBRUARY 2005 - NOGALES, SONORA, MEXICO: Members of "Grupo Operativos" a special operations unit of the Nogales, Sonora, Mexico, police department, on patrol in Nogales, Saturday night, Feb. 5. The Operativos specialize in anti-gang enforcement and drug interdiction missions. In recent months they have stepped up patrol activity in Nogales communities near the border. In January 2005, the US Department of State has issued a travel advisory advising US citizens to avoid travel along the US Mexican border because of increased violence, including the kidnapping of US citizens, in border communities. Most of the violence has been linked to the drug cartels, who are increasingly powerful in Mexico. The Operativos also patrol the districts of Nogales frequented by US tourists in an effort to prevent crime directed against US citizens.   PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 05 FEBRUARY 2005 - NOGALES, SONORA, MEXICO: Members of "Grupo Operativos" a special operations unit of the Nogales, Sonora, Mexico, police department, on patrol in Nogales, Saturday night, Feb. 5. The Operativos specialize in anti-gang enforcement and drug interdiction missions. In recent months they have stepped up patrol activity in Nogales communities near the border. In January 2005, the US Department of State has issued a travel advisory advising US citizens to avoid travel along the US Mexican border because of increased violence, including the kidnapping of US citizens, in border communities. Most of the violence has been linked to the drug cartels, who are increasingly powerful in Mexico. The Operativos also patrol the districts of Nogales frequented by US tourists in an effort to prevent crime directed against US citizens.   PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 05 FEBRUARY 2005 - NOGALES, SONORA, MEXICO: Members of "Grupo Operativos" a special operations unit of the Nogales, Sonora, Mexico, police department, on patrol in Nogales, Saturday night, Feb. 5. The Operativos specialize in anti-gang enforcement and drug interdiction missions. In recent months they have stepped up patrol activity in Nogales communities near the border. In January 2005, the US Department of State has issued a travel advisory advising US citizens to avoid travel along the US Mexican border because of increased violence, including the kidnapping of US citizens, in border communities. Most of the violence has been linked to the drug cartels, who are increasingly powerful in Mexico. The Operativos also patrol the districts of Nogales frequented by US tourists in an effort to prevent crime directed against US citizens.   PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
    NogalesPoliceResend015.jpg
  • 05 FEBRUARY 2005 - NOGALES, SONORA, MEXICO: Members of "Grupo Operativos" a special operations unit of the Nogales, Sonora, Mexico, police department, on patrol in Nogales, Saturday night, Feb. 5. The Operativos specialize in anti-gang enforcement and drug interdiction missions. In recent months they have stepped up patrol activity in Nogales communities near the border. In January 2005, the US Department of State has issued a travel advisory advising US citizens to avoid travel along the US Mexican border because of increased violence, including the kidnapping of US citizens, in border communities. Most of the violence has been linked to the drug cartels, who are increasingly powerful in Mexico. The Operativos also patrol the districts of Nogales frequented by US tourists in an effort to prevent crime directed against US citizens.   PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 05 FEBRUARY 2005 - NOGALES, SONORA, MEXICO: Members of "Grupo Operativos" a special operations unit of the Nogales, Sonora, Mexico, police department, on patrol in Nogales, Saturday night, Feb. 5. The Operativos specialize in anti-gang enforcement and drug interdiction missions. In recent months they have stepped up patrol activity in Nogales communities near the border. In January 2005, the US Department of State has issued a travel advisory advising US citizens to avoid travel along the US Mexican border because of increased violence, including the kidnapping of US citizens, in border communities. Most of the violence has been linked to the drug cartels, who are increasingly powerful in Mexico. The Operativos also patrol the districts of Nogales frequented by US tourists in an effort to prevent crime directed against US citizens.   PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
    NogalesPoliceResend013.jpg
  • 05 FEBRUARY 2005 - NOGALES, SONORA, MEXICO: Members of "Grupo Operativos" a special operations unit of the Nogales, Sonora, Mexico, police department, on patrol in Nogales, Saturday night, Feb. 5. The Operativos specialize in anti-gang enforcement and drug interdiction missions. In recent months they have stepped up patrol activity in Nogales communities near the border. In January 2005, the US Department of State has issued a travel advisory advising US citizens to avoid travel along the US Mexican border because of increased violence, including the kidnapping of US citizens, in border communities. Most of the violence has been linked to the drug cartels, who are increasingly powerful in Mexico. The Operativos also patrol the districts of Nogales frequented by US tourists in an effort to prevent crime directed against US citizens.   PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 05 FEBRUARY 2005 - NOGALES, SONORA, MEXICO: Nogales, Mexico, police talk to people in a bar in Nogales during an anti-gang sweep. Members of "Grupo Operativos" a special operations unit of the Nogales, Sonora, Mexico, police department, on patrol in Nogales, Saturday night, Feb. 5. The Operativos specialize in anti-gang enforcement and drug interdiction missions. In recent months they have stepped up patrol activity in Nogales communities near the border. In January 2005, the US Department of State has issued a travel advisory advising US citizens to avoid travel along the US Mexican border because of increased violence, including the kidnapping of US citizens, in border communities. Most of the violence has been linked to the drug cartels, who are increasingly powerful in Mexico. The Operativos also patrol the districts of Nogales frequented by US tourists in an effort to prevent crime directed against US citizens.   PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 05 FEBRUARY 2005 - NOGALES, SONORA, MEXICO: A Nogales, Sonora, Mexico SWAT team sweeps a bar in Nogales during a drug interdiction sweep.  PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 28 JANUARY 2005 - NOGALES, SONORA, MEXICO: A police officer in Nogales, Sonora, Mexico, arrests a suspected gang member in anti-drug sweep..  PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 28 JANUARY 2005 - NOGALES, SONORA, MEXICO: A police officer in Nogales, Sonora, Mexico, with a suspected gang member in anti-drug sweep..  PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 17 JUNE 2015 - RANGAE, NARATHIWAT, THAILAND: Thai women Rangers drill. There are 5 platoons of women Rangers serving in Thailand's restive Deep South. They generally perform security missions at large public events and do public outreach missions, like home wellness checks and delivering food and medicine into rural communities. The medics frequently work in civilian clothes because the Rangers found people are more relaxed around them when they're in civilian clothes. About 6,000 people have been killed in sectarian violence in Thailand's three southern provinces of Narathiwat, Pattani and Yala since a Muslim insurgency started in 2004. Attacks usually spike during religious holidays. Insurgents are fighting for more autonomy from the central government in Bangkok.     PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 11 JULY 2013 - RAMAN, YALA, THAILAND:  Thai security personnel on patrol after an Army unit was hit by an IED Thursday. Eight soldiers were injured when the IED exploded under a Thai Army truck carrying soldiers back to their camp after they finished a teacher protection mision. The army routinely dispatches soldiers to protect teachers and Buddhist monks, who have been targeted by Muslim insurgents as representatives of the Bangkok government. More than 5,000 people have been killed and over 9,000 hurt in more than 11,000 incidents in Thailand's three southernmost provinces and four districts of Songkhla since the insurgent violence erupted in January 2004, according to Deep South Watch, an independent research organization that monitors violence in Thailand's deep south region that borders Malaysia.   PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 05 FEBRUARY 2005 - NOGALES, SONORA, MEXICO: Police in Nogales, Mexico, search bar patrons during an anti-gang sweep. Members of "Grupo Operativos" a special operations unit of the Nogales, Sonora, Mexico, police department, on patrol in Nogales, Saturday night, Feb. 5. The Operativos specialize in anti-gang enforcement and drug interdiction missions. In recent months they have stepped up patrol activity in Nogales communities near the border. In January 2005, the US Department of State has issued a travel advisory advising US citizens to avoid travel along the US Mexican border because of increased violence, including the kidnapping of US citizens, in border communities. Most of the violence has been linked to the drug cartels, who are increasingly powerful in Mexico. The Operativos also patrol the districts of Nogales frequented by US tourists in an effort to prevent crime directed against US citizens.   PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 05 FEBRUARY 2005 - NOGALES, SONORA, MEXICO: Men who were arrested by Nogales police sit in the back of a police truck during an anti-gang sweep. Members of "Grupo Operativos" a special operations unit of the Nogales, Sonora, Mexico, police department, on patrol in Nogales, Saturday night, Feb. 5. The Operativos specialize in anti-gang enforcement and drug interdiction missions. In recent months they have stepped up patrol activity in Nogales communities near the border. In January 2005, the US Department of State has issued a travel advisory advising US citizens to avoid travel along the US Mexican border because of increased violence, including the kidnapping of US citizens, in border communities. Most of the violence has been linked to the drug cartels, who are increasingly powerful in Mexico. The Operativos also patrol the districts of Nogales frequented by US tourists in an effort to prevent crime directed against US citizens.   PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 09 JANUARY 2016 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: A Thai boy plays with an Army IMI Tavor TAR-21 during Children's Day festivities at the Royal  Thai Army's Palace Guard, 2nd Division Cavalry Base in Bangkok. National Children’s Day falls on the second Saturday of the year. Thai government agencies sponsor child friendly events and the military usually opens army bases to children, who come to play on tanks and artillery pieces.          PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 09 JANUARY 2016 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: A Thai boy plays with an Army IMI Tavor TAR-21 during Children's Day festivities at the Royal  Thai Army's Palace Guard, 2nd Division Cavalry Base in Bangkok. National Children’s Day falls on the second Saturday of the year. Thai government agencies sponsor child friendly events and the military usually opens army bases to children, who come to play on tanks and artillery pieces.          PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 05 FEBRUARY 2005 - NOGALES, SONORA, MEXICO: Workers in an adult entertainment bar in Nogales, Sonora, Mexico, wait for police to finish checking ID cards during a sweep to crackdown on drug dealers and gang members.  PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 05 FEBRUARY 2005 - NOGALES, SONORA, MEXICO: Police officers in Nogales, Sonora, check the ID cards of entertainers in an adult entertainment business during a sweep to crackdown on drug dealers and gang members.  PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 28 JANUARY 2005 - NOGALES, SONORA, MEXICO: A police officer watches the door of a bar during an antidug sweep in Nogales, Sonora.  PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 05 FEBRUARY 2005 - NOGALES, SONORA, MEXICO: Members of "Grupo Operativos" a special operations unit of the Nogales, Sonora, Mexico, police department, on patrol in Nogales, Saturday night, Feb. 5. The Operativos specialize in anti-gang enforcement and drug interdiction missions. In recent months they have stepped up patrol activity in Nogales communities near the border. In January 2005, the US Department of State has issued a travel advisory advising US citizens to avoid travel along the US Mexican border because of increased violence, including the kidnapping of US citizens, in border communities. Most of the violence has been linked to the drug cartels, who are increasingly powerful in Mexico. The Operativos also patrol the districts of Nogales frequented by US tourists in an effort to prevent crime directed against US citizens.   PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 05 FEBRUARY 2005 - NOGALES, SONORA, MEXICO: Members of "Grupo Operativos" a special operations unit of the Nogales, Sonora, Mexico, police department, arrest a suspected gang member during an antidrug sweep in Nogales, Saturday night, Feb. 5. The Operativos specialize in anti-gang enforcement and drug interdiction missions. In recent months they have stepped up patrol activity in Nogales communities near the border. In January 2005, the US Department of State has issued a travel advisory advising US citizens to avoid travel along the US Mexican border because of increased violence, including the kidnapping of US citizens, in border communities. Most of the violence has been linked to the drug cartels, who are increasingly powerful in Mexico. The Operativos also patrol the districts of Nogales frequented by US tourists in an effort to prevent crime directed against US citizens.   PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 05 FEBRUARY 2005 - NOGALES, SONORA, MEXICO: Members of "Grupo Operativos" a special operations unit of the Nogales, Sonora, Mexico, police department, on patrol in Nogales, Saturday night, Feb. 5. The Operativos specialize in anti-gang enforcement and drug interdiction missions. In recent months they have stepped up patrol activity in Nogales communities near the border. In January 2005, the US Department of State has issued a travel advisory advising US citizens to avoid travel along the US Mexican border because of increased violence, including the kidnapping of US citizens, in border communities. Most of the violence has been linked to the drug cartels, who are increasingly powerful in Mexico. The Operativos also patrol the districts of Nogales frequented by US tourists in an effort to prevent crime directed against US citizens.   PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 05 FEBRUARY 2005 - NOGALES, SONORA, MEXICO: Nogales, Mexico, stand in the doorway of the city jail. Members of "Grupo Operativos" a special operations unit of the Nogales, Sonora, Mexico, police department, on patrol in Nogales, Saturday night, Feb. 5. The Operativos specialize in anti-gang enforcement and drug interdiction missions. In recent months they have stepped up patrol activity in Nogales communities near the border. In January 2005, the US Department of State has issued a travel advisory advising US citizens to avoid travel along the US Mexican border because of increased violence, including the kidnapping of US citizens, in border communities. Most of the violence has been linked to the drug cartels, who are increasingly powerful in Mexico. The Operativos also patrol the districts of Nogales frequented by US tourists in an effort to prevent crime directed against US citizens.   PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 05 FEBRUARY 2005 - NOGALES, SONORA, MEXICO: Members of "Grupo Operativos" a special operations unit of the Nogales, Sonora, Mexico, police department, on patrol in Nogales, Saturday night, Feb. 5. The Operativos specialize in anti-gang enforcement and drug interdiction missions. In recent months they have stepped up patrol activity in Nogales communities near the border. In January 2005, the US Department of State has issued a travel advisory advising US citizens to avoid travel along the US Mexican border because of increased violence, including the kidnapping of US citizens, in border communities. Most of the violence has been linked to the drug cartels, who are increasingly powerful in Mexico. The Operativos also patrol the districts of Nogales frequented by US tourists in an effort to prevent crime directed against US citizens.   PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 05 FEBRUARY 2005 - NOGALES, SONORA, MEXICO: Members of "Grupo Operativos" a special operations unit of the Nogales, Sonora, Mexico, police department, on patrol in Nogales, Saturday night, Feb. 5. The Operativos specialize in anti-gang enforcement and drug interdiction missions. In recent months they have stepped up patrol activity in Nogales communities near the border. In January 2005, the US Department of State has issued a travel advisory advising US citizens to avoid travel along the US Mexican border because of increased violence, including the kidnapping of US citizens, in border communities. Most of the violence has been linked to the drug cartels, who are increasingly powerful in Mexico. The Operativos also patrol the districts of Nogales frequented by US tourists in an effort to prevent crime directed against US citizens.   PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 05 FEBRUARY 2005 - NOGALES, SONORA, MEXICO: Members of "Grupo Operativos" a special operations unit of the Nogales, Sonora, Mexico, police department, on patrol in Nogales, Saturday night, Feb. 5. The Operativos specialize in anti-gang enforcement and drug interdiction missions. In recent months they have stepped up patrol activity in Nogales communities near the border. In January 2005, the US Department of State has issued a travel advisory advising US citizens to avoid travel along the US Mexican border because of increased violence, including the kidnapping of US citizens, in border communities. Most of the violence has been linked to the drug cartels, who are increasingly powerful in Mexico. The Operativos also patrol the districts of Nogales frequented by US tourists in an effort to prevent crime directed against US citizens.   PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 05 FEBRUARY 2005 - NOGALES, SONORA, MEXICO: A Nogales, Mexico, police officer arrests a man in a bar during an anti-gang sweep. Members of "Grupo Operativos" a special operations unit of the Nogales, Sonora, Mexico, police department, on patrol in Nogales, Saturday night, Feb. 5. The Operativos specialize in anti-gang enforcement and drug interdiction missions. In recent months they have stepped up patrol activity in Nogales communities near the border. In January 2005, the US Department of State has issued a travel advisory advising US citizens to avoid travel along the US Mexican border because of increased violence, including the kidnapping of US citizens, in border communities. Most of the violence has been linked to the drug cartels, who are increasingly powerful in Mexico. The Operativos also patrol the districts of Nogales frequented by US tourists in an effort to prevent crime directed against US citizens.   PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 05 FEBRUARY 2005 - NOGALES, SONORA, MEXICO: Nogales, Mexico police in a bar check customers' ID cards during an anti-gang sweep. Members of "Grupo Operativos" a special operations unit of the Nogales, Sonora, Mexico, police department, on patrol in Nogales, Saturday night, Feb. 5. The Operativos specialize in anti-gang enforcement and drug interdiction missions. In recent months they have stepped up patrol activity in Nogales communities near the border. In January 2005, the US Department of State has issued a travel advisory advising US citizens to avoid travel along the US Mexican border because of increased violence, including the kidnapping of US citizens, in border communities. Most of the violence has been linked to the drug cartels, who are increasingly powerful in Mexico. The Operativos also patrol the districts of Nogales frequented by US tourists in an effort to prevent crime directed against US citizens.   PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 28 JANUARY 2005 - NOGALES, SONORA, MEXICO: Police officers in Nogales, Sonora, sweep the adult entertainment district and neighborhoods known to have crime rates and gang related problems.  PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 28 JANUARY 2005 - NOGALES, SONORA, MEXICO: Police officers in Nogales, Sonora, sweep the adult entertainment district and neighborhoods known to have crime rates and gang related problems.  PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 28 JANUARY 2005 - NOGALES, SONORA, MEXICO: A police officer in Nogales, Sonora, Mexico, arrests a suspected gang member in anti-drug sweep..  PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 28 JANUARY 2005 - NOGALES, SONORA, MEXICO: A police officer in Nogales, Sonora, Mexico, with a suspected gang member in anti-drug sweep..  PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 11 JULY 2013 - RAMAN, YALA, THAILAND:  Thai anti-terror police walk along a road where Thai soldiers were hit by an IED attack Thursday. Eight soldiers were injured when the IED exploded under a Thai Army truck carrying soldiers back to their camp after they finished a teacher protection mision. The army routinely dispatches soldiers to protect teachers and Buddhist monks, who have been targeted by Muslim insurgents as representatives of the Bangkok government. More than 5,000 people have been killed and over 9,000 hurt in more than 11,000 incidents in Thailand's three southernmost provinces and four districts of Songkhla since the insurgent violence erupted in January 2004, according to Deep South Watch, an independent research organization that monitors violence in Thailand's deep south region that borders Malaysia.   PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 11 JULY 2013 - RAMAN, YALA, THAILAND:  Thai security personnel on patrol after an Army unit was hit by an IED Thursday. Eight soldiers were injured when the IED exploded under a Thai Army truck carrying soldiers back to their camp after they finished a teacher protection mision. The army routinely dispatches soldiers to protect teachers and Buddhist monks, who have been targeted by Muslim insurgents as representatives of the Bangkok government. More than 5,000 people have been killed and over 9,000 hurt in more than 11,000 incidents in Thailand's three southernmost provinces and four districts of Songkhla since the insurgent violence erupted in January 2004, according to Deep South Watch, an independent research organization that monitors violence in Thailand's deep south region that borders Malaysia.   PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 11 JULY 2013 - RAMAN, YALA, THAILAND:  Thai security personnel on patrol after an Army unit was hit by an IED Thursday. Eight soldiers were injured when the IED exploded under a Thai Army truck carrying soldiers back to their camp after they finished a teacher protection mision. The army routinely dispatches soldiers to protect teachers and Buddhist monks, who have been targeted by Muslim insurgents as representatives of the Bangkok government. More than 5,000 people have been killed and over 9,000 hurt in more than 11,000 incidents in Thailand's three southernmost provinces and four districts of Songkhla since the insurgent violence erupted in January 2004, according to Deep South Watch, an independent research organization that monitors violence in Thailand's deep south region that borders Malaysia.   PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 11 JULY 2013 - RAMAN, YALA, THAILAND:  Thai security personnel on patrol after an Army unit was hit by an IED Thursday. Eight soldiers were injured when the IED exploded under a Thai Army truck carrying soldiers back to their camp after they finished a teacher protection mision. The army routinely dispatches soldiers to protect teachers and Buddhist monks, who have been targeted by Muslim insurgents as representatives of the Bangkok government. More than 5,000 people have been killed and over 9,000 hurt in more than 11,000 incidents in Thailand's three southernmost provinces and four districts of Songkhla since the insurgent violence erupted in January 2004, according to Deep South Watch, an independent research organization that monitors violence in Thailand's deep south region that borders Malaysia.   PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 05 FEBRUARY 2005 - NOGALES, SONORA, MEXICO: Police officers in Nogales, Sonora, arrest a suspected gang member during a sweep of the adult entertainment district and neighborhoods known to have crime rates and gang related problems.  PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 05 FEBRUARY 2005 - NOGALES, SONORA, MEXICO: Nogales, Mexico, stand in the doorway of the city jail. Members of "Grupo Operativos" a special operations unit of the Nogales, Sonora, Mexico, police department, on patrol in Nogales, Saturday night, Feb. 5. The Operativos specialize in anti-gang enforcement and drug interdiction missions. In recent months they have stepped up patrol activity in Nogales communities near the border. In January 2005, the US Department of State has issued a travel advisory advising US citizens to avoid travel along the US Mexican border because of increased violence, including the kidnapping of US citizens, in border communities. Most of the violence has been linked to the drug cartels, who are increasingly powerful in Mexico. The Operativos also patrol the districts of Nogales frequented by US tourists in an effort to prevent crime directed against US citizens.   PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 05 FEBRUARY 2005 - NOGALES, SONORA, MEXICO: A Nogales, Mexico, police officer stands in the doorway of the jail in Nogales. Members of "Grupo Operativos" a special operations unit of the Nogales, Sonora, Mexico, police department, on patrol in Nogales, Saturday night, Feb. 5. The Operativos specialize in anti-gang enforcement and drug interdiction missions. In recent months they have stepped up patrol activity in Nogales communities near the border. In January 2005, the US Department of State has issued a travel advisory advising US citizens to avoid travel along the US Mexican border because of increased violence, including the kidnapping of US citizens, in border communities. Most of the violence has been linked to the drug cartels, who are increasingly powerful in Mexico. The Operativos also patrol the districts of Nogales frequented by US tourists in an effort to prevent crime directed against US citizens.   PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 05 FEBRUARY 2005 - NOGALES, SONORA, MEXICO: Members of "Grupo Operativos" a special operations unit of the Nogales, Sonora, Mexico, police department, on patrol in Nogales, Saturday night, Feb. 5. The Operativos specialize in anti-gang enforcement and drug interdiction missions. In recent months they have stepped up patrol activity in Nogales communities near the border. In January 2005, the US Department of State has issued a travel advisory advising US citizens to avoid travel along the US Mexican border because of increased violence, including the kidnapping of US citizens, in border communities. Most of the violence has been linked to the drug cartels, who are increasingly powerful in Mexico. The Operativos also patrol the districts of Nogales frequented by US tourists in an effort to prevent crime directed against US citizens.   PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 05 FEBRUARY 2005 - NOGALES, SONORA, MEXICO: Police in Nogales, Mexico, search bar patrons during an anti-gang sweep. Members of "Grupo Operativos" a special operations unit of the Nogales, Sonora, Mexico, police department, on patrol in Nogales, Saturday night, Feb. 5. The Operativos specialize in anti-gang enforcement and drug interdiction missions. In recent months they have stepped up patrol activity in Nogales communities near the border. In January 2005, the US Department of State has issued a travel advisory advising US citizens to avoid travel along the US Mexican border because of increased violence, including the kidnapping of US citizens, in border communities. Most of the violence has been linked to the drug cartels, who are increasingly powerful in Mexico. The Operativos also patrol the districts of Nogales frequented by US tourists in an effort to prevent crime directed against US citizens.   PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 05 FEBRUARY 2005 - NOGALES, SONORA, MEXICO: Men who were arrested by Nogales police sit in the back of a police truck during an anti-gang sweep. Members of "Grupo Operativos" a special operations unit of the Nogales, Sonora, Mexico, police department, on patrol in Nogales, Saturday night, Feb. 5. The Operativos specialize in anti-gang enforcement and drug interdiction missions. In recent months they have stepped up patrol activity in Nogales communities near the border. In January 2005, the US Department of State has issued a travel advisory advising US citizens to avoid travel along the US Mexican border because of increased violence, including the kidnapping of US citizens, in border communities. Most of the violence has been linked to the drug cartels, who are increasingly powerful in Mexico. The Operativos also patrol the districts of Nogales frequented by US tourists in an effort to prevent crime directed against US citizens.   PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 05 FEBRUARY 2005 - NOGALES, SONORA, MEXICO: Members of "Grupo Operativos" a special operations unit of the Nogales, Sonora, Mexico, police department, on patrol in Nogales, Saturday night, Feb. 5. The Operativos specialize in anti-gang enforcement and drug interdiction missions. In recent months they have stepped up patrol activity in Nogales communities near the border. In January 2005, the US Department of State has issued a travel advisory advising US citizens to avoid travel along the US Mexican border because of increased violence, including the kidnapping of US citizens, in border communities. Most of the violence has been linked to the drug cartels, who are increasingly powerful in Mexico. The Operativos also patrol the districts of Nogales frequented by US tourists in an effort to prevent crime directed against US citizens.   PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 05 FEBRUARY 2005 - NOGALES, SONORA, MEXICO: Members of "Grupo Operativos" a special operations unit of the Nogales, Sonora, Mexico, police department, on patrol in Nogales, Saturday night, Feb. 5. The Operativos specialize in anti-gang enforcement and drug interdiction missions. In recent months they have stepped up patrol activity in Nogales communities near the border. In January 2005, the US Department of State has issued a travel advisory advising US citizens to avoid travel along the US Mexican border because of increased violence, including the kidnapping of US citizens, in border communities. Most of the violence has been linked to the drug cartels, who are increasingly powerful in Mexico. The Operativos also patrol the districts of Nogales frequented by US tourists in an effort to prevent crime directed against US citizens.   PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 05 FEBRUARY 2005 - NOGALES, SONORA, MEXICO: Police in Nogales, Sonora, Mexico search suspected gang members during a sweep in Nogales. Members of "Grupo Operativos" a special operations unit of the Nogales, Sonora, Mexico, police department, on patrol in Nogales, Saturday night, Feb. 5. The Operativos specialize in anti-gang enforcement and drug interdiction missions. In recent months they have stepped up patrol activity in Nogales communities near the border. In January 2005, the US Department of State has issued a travel advisory advising US citizens to avoid travel along the US Mexican border because of increased violence, including the kidnapping of US citizens, in border communities. Most of the violence has been linked to the drug cartels, who are increasingly powerful in Mexico. The Operativos also patrol the districts of Nogales frequented by US tourists in an effort to prevent crime directed against US citizens.   PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 28 JANUARY 2005 - NOGALES, SONORA, MEXICO: Police officers in Nogales, Sonora, sweep the adult entertainment district and neighborhoods known to have crime rates and gang related problems.  PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 16 JUNE 2015 - CHANAE, NARATHIWAT, THAILAND:  A Thai defense volunteer directs Muslim men to a prayer service in Chanae. About 600 people from Muslim communities in Chanae district of Narathiwat province came to the district offices Tuesday morning to participate in a prayer for peace during Ramadan. About 6,000 people have been killed in sectarian violence in Thailand's three southern provinces of Narathiwat, Pattani and Yala since a Muslim insurgency started in 2004. Attacks usually spike during religious holidays. Insurgents are fighting for more autonomy from the central government in Bangkok.       PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 05 FEBRUARY 2005 - NOGALES, SONORA, MEXICO: Members of "Grupo Operativos" a special operations unit of the Nogales, Sonora, Mexico, police department, search a bar during an anti-gang patrol in Nogales, Saturday night, Feb. 5. The Operativos specialize in anti-gang enforcement and drug interdiction missions. In recent months they have stepped up patrol activity in Nogales communities near the border. In January 2005, the US Department of State has issued a travel advisory advising US citizens to avoid travel along the US Mexican border because of increased violence, including the kidnapping of US citizens, in border communities. Most of the violence has been linked to the drug cartels, who are increasingly powerful in Mexico. The Operativos also patrol the districts of Nogales frequented by US tourists in an effort to prevent crime directed against US citizens.   PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 18 FEBRUARY 2014 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: A Thai riot police officer with his assault rifle in Bangkok waits to confront anti-government protestors. Anti-government protestors aligned with Suthep Thaugsuban and the People's Democratic Reform Committee (PDRC) clashed with police Tuesday. Protestors opened fire on police with at rifles and handguns. Police returned fire with live ammunition and rubber bullets. The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration's Erawan Emergency Medical Centre reported that three civilians and a policeman were killed and 64 others were injured in the clashes between police and protesters.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 18 FEBRUARY 2014 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: A Thai riot police officer with his assault rifle in Bangkok waits to confront anti-government protestors. Anti-government protestors aligned with Suthep Thaugsuban and the People's Democratic Reform Committee (PDRC) clashed with police Tuesday. Protestors opened fire on police with at rifles and handguns. Police returned fire with live ammunition and rubber bullets. The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration's Erawan Emergency Medical Centre reported that three civilians and a policeman were killed and 64 others were injured in the clashes between police and protesters.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 18 FEBRUARY 2014 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: A Thai riot police officer with his assault rifle in Bangkok waits to confront anti-government protestors. Anti-government protestors aligned with Suthep Thaugsuban and the People's Democratic Reform Committee (PDRC) clashed with police Tuesday. Protestors opened fire on police with at rifles and handguns. Police returned fire with live ammunition and rubber bullets. The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration's Erawan Emergency Medical Centre reported that three civilians and a policeman were killed and 64 others were injured in the clashes between police and protesters.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 11 JANUARY 2014 - BANGKOK, THAILAND:  A Thai boy plays with a M16 Assault Rifle during Children's Day in Bangkok. The Royal Thai Army hosted a "Children's Day" event at the 2nd Cavalry King's Guard Division base in Bangkok. Children had an opportunity to look at military weapons, climb around on tanks, artillery pieces and helicopters and look at battlefield medical facilities. The Children's Day fair comes amidst political strife and concerns of a possible coup in Thailand. Earlier in the week, the Thai army announced that movements of armored vehicles through Bangkok were not in preparation of a coup, but were moving equipment into position for Children's Day.     PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 11 JANUARY 2014 - BANGKOK, THAILAND:  A Thai girl plays with a TAVOR Assault Rifle during Children's Day in Bangkok. The Royal Thai Army hosted a "Children's Day" event at the 2nd Cavalry King's Guard Division base in Bangkok. Children had an opportunity to look at military weapons, climb around on tanks, artillery pieces and helicopters and look at battlefield medical facilities. The Children's Day fair comes amidst political strife and concerns of a possible coup in Thailand. Earlier in the week, the Thai army announced that movements of armored vehicles through Bangkok were not in preparation of a coup, but were moving equipment into position for Children's Day.     PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 11 JANUARY 2014 - BANGKOK, THAILAND:  A Thai girl plays with a TAVOR Assault Rifle during Children's Day in Bangkok. The Royal Thai Army hosted a "Children's Day" event at the 2nd Cavalry King's Guard Division base in Bangkok. Children had an opportunity to look at military weapons, climb around on tanks, artillery pieces and helicopters and look at battlefield medical facilities. The Children's Day fair comes amidst political strife and concerns of a possible coup in Thailand. Earlier in the week, the Thai army announced that movements of armored vehicles through Bangkok were not in preparation of a coup, but were moving equipment into position for Children's Day.     PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
    BKKChildrensDayArmyExpo024.jpg
  • 11 MAY 2013 - BANGKOK, THAILAND:  A Yellow Shirt protester with a guitar shaped like an assault rifle performs in the Yellow Shirt encampment on Sanam Luang. A faction of the Yellow Shirts are camping at Sanam Luang, the royal parade ground in front of the Grand Palace, to show support for the Thai monarchy and the Thai Constitutional Court. The court has become a flash point in Thai politics because Red Shirts claim the court is biased against them and have been protesting against the court, calling for the justices' ouster and replacement with justices more open to the Red Shirts. The Yellow Shirt protest at Sanam Luang is calling for the Justices to remain on the court.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 11 MAY 2013 - BANGKOK, THAILAND:  A Yellow Shirt protester with a guitar shaped like an assault rifle performs in the Yellow Shirt encampment on Sanam Luang. A faction of the Yellow Shirts are camping at Sanam Luang, the royal parade ground in front of the Grand Palace, to show support for the Thai monarchy and the Thai Constitutional Court. The court has become a flash point in Thai politics because Red Shirts claim the court is biased against them and have been protesting against the court, calling for the justices' ouster and replacement with justices more open to the Red Shirts. The Yellow Shirt protest at Sanam Luang is calling for the Justices to remain on the court.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
    Bangkok0511045.jpg
  • 11 MAY 2013 - BANGKOK, THAILAND:  A Yellow Shirt protester with a guitar shaped like an assault rifle performs in the Yellow Shirt encampment on Sanam Luang. A faction of the Yellow Shirts are camping at Sanam Luang, the royal parade ground in front of the Grand Palace, to show support for the Thai monarchy and the Thai Constitutional Court. The court has become a flash point in Thai politics because Red Shirts claim the court is biased against them and have been protesting against the court, calling for the justices' ouster and replacement with justices more open to the Red Shirts. The Yellow Shirt protest at Sanam Luang is calling for the Justices to remain on the court.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
    Bangkok0511044.jpg
  • 29 SEPTEMBER 2015 - BANGKOK, THAILAND:  A high school student buys a toy assault rifle in the Saphan Lek market. Street vendors and illegal market vendors in the Saphan Lek area will be removed in the next two weeks as a part of an urban renewal project coordinated by the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration. About 500 vendors along Damrongsathit Bridge, popularly known as Saphan Lek, have 15 days to relocate. Vendors who don't move will be evicted. Saphan Lek is just one of several markets and street vending areas being closed in Bangkok this year. The market is known for toy and replica guns, bootleg and pirated DVDs and CDs and electronic toys.   PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
    SaphanLekMarketClosing011.jpg
  • 11 JANUARY 2014 - BANGKOK, THAILAND:  A Thai boy plays with a TAVOR Assault Rifle during Children's Day in Bangkok. The Royal Thai Army hosted a "Children's Day" event at the 2nd Cavalry King's Guard Division base in Bangkok. Children had an opportunity to look at military weapons, climb around on tanks, artillery pieces and helicopters and look at battlefield medical facilities. The Children's Day fair comes amidst political strife and concerns of a possible coup in Thailand. Earlier in the week, the Thai army announced that movements of armored vehicles through Bangkok were not in preparation of a coup, but were moving equipment into position for Children's Day.     PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
    BKKChildrensDayArmyExpo028.jpg
  • 11 MAY 2013 - BANGKOK, THAILAND:  A Yellow Shirt protester with a guitar shaped like an assault rifle performs in the Yellow Shirt encampment on Sanam Luang. A faction of the Yellow Shirts are camping at Sanam Luang, the royal parade ground in front of the Grand Palace, to show support for the Thai monarchy and the Thai Constitutional Court. The court has become a flash point in Thai politics because Red Shirts claim the court is biased against them and have been protesting against the court, calling for the justices' ouster and replacement with justices more open to the Red Shirts. The Yellow Shirt protest at Sanam Luang is calling for the Justices to remain on the court.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
    Bangkok0511045.jpg
  • 29 SEPTEMBER 2015 - BANGKOK, THAILAND:  A high school student buys a toy assault rifle in the Saphan Lek market. Street vendors and illegal market vendors in the Saphan Lek area will be removed in the next two weeks as a part of an urban renewal project coordinated by the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration. About 500 vendors along Damrongsathit Bridge, popularly known as Saphan Lek, have 15 days to relocate. Vendors who don't move will be evicted. Saphan Lek is just one of several markets and street vending areas being closed in Bangkok this year. The market is known for toy and replica guns, bootleg and pirated DVDs and CDs and electronic toys.   PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
    SaphanLekMarketClosing010.jpg
  • 11 JANUARY 2014 - BANGKOK, THAILAND:  A Thai boy plays with a TAVOR Assault Rifle during Children's Day in Bangkok. The Royal Thai Army hosted a "Children's Day" event at the 2nd Cavalry King's Guard Division base in Bangkok. Children had an opportunity to look at military weapons, climb around on tanks, artillery pieces and helicopters and look at battlefield medical facilities. The Children's Day fair comes amidst political strife and concerns of a possible coup in Thailand. Earlier in the week, the Thai army announced that movements of armored vehicles through Bangkok were not in preparation of a coup, but were moving equipment into position for Children's Day.     PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
    BKKChildrensDayArmyExpo029.jpg
  • 11 JANUARY 2014 - BANGKOK, THAILAND:  A Thai soldier shows boys a TAVOR Assault Rifle during Children's Day in Bangkok. The Royal Thai Army hosted a "Children's Day" event at the 2nd Cavalry King's Guard Division base in Bangkok. Children had an opportunity to look at military weapons, climb around on tanks, artillery pieces and helicopters and look at battlefield medical facilities. The Children's Day fair comes amidst political strife and concerns of a possible coup in Thailand. Earlier in the week, the Thai army announced that movements of armored vehicles through Bangkok were not in preparation of a coup, but were moving equipment into position for Children's Day.     PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
    BKKChildrensDayArmyExpo026.jpg
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