With a Muslim insurgency threatening to destabilize Thailand's south, armed soldiers have begun shadowing the area's Buddhist monks as they make their daily rounds begging for alms.
"With its barbed wire, sandbag bunker and armed guard, Wat Lak Muang in Thailand's strife-torn deep south looks more like a military outpost than a typical Buddhist temple," writes Didier Lauras for AFP, the French news agency:
Since a deadly insurgency erupted in the Muslim-dominated region seven years ago, the...
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