Fatherland

The violent unrest between Buddhists and Muslims in the three southernmost provinces of Thailand sparked in 2004 has grown into a brutal insurgency that has claimed more than 5000 lives on both sides Police Captain Taron Yangcheepchob Sukollawat Kanarot a Thai Buddhist from Bangkok volunteers to a posting at a station in the troubled South He begins to understand the roots of the conflict and how policies of successive governments have failed to stem the ongoing violence As his worldview is challenged Tarons heart begins to change and he finds himself drawn towards Islam