News at Eleven: These are the verses of Zakariya Amataya,

a 35-year-old poet who grew up in one of the districts now violently torn apart by long-held resentment over language, religion and nationalism. The insurgents are Muslim and ethnically Malay, and the Thai Army units sent here to fight them are largely Buddhist. Mr. Zakariya, a Muslim poet in a Buddhist land, is caught in the middle.

Next month, Mr. Zakariya will be formally awarded the region's top writing prize, honoring his first published book of poetry.

from The New York Times: A Poet's Return Home to Thailand's Violent South

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