Schools reopened in Thailand under guard of thousands of police.

The last school that was attacked was an elementary school in Bangasod, in the district of Bannang Sata, in Yala, which was burnt to the ground last Sunday.

No one was killed in the incident but according to local news reports, at least 50 teachers have been killed in the three provinces since January 2004 and a total of at least 2,100 people have died in over three years of violence.

Besides the Bangasod school, another 29 others have to be re-built after they were attacked. The Thai education minister, Wijit Srisa-arn, admitted that they have not found any companies that are willing to work on schools in the “Deep South”, as the three provinces are often referred to.

And just who has been attacking these schools? Radical Islamists of course.