If you want to believe the current government of Thailand and off course you do, then there is a cease fire with the south Thailand insurgents.
They declared that 11 insurgents groups have stop fighting and any other groups that continue fighting would be eliminated.
To really point out how serious they were they managed to kill some more people and blow up a police station 4 days after they declared ceasefire. Maybe there is 30 more groups out there and the government need to talk with them as well? From now until today around 3500 people have been killed in the violence.
Let’s wait for another month and see what this is all about and if the government is just trying to turn our eyes to the south and not to Bangkok.