The women of Wanita
Nine years ago, Ropita Mahamat almost lost her son in a shooting incident, a dishearteningly familiar story in the Deep South. One night at 9pm in Pattani, her son was picking a relative from a pondok school when unidentified gunmen opened fire on him — or, more likely, on someone else, though the bullets hit him. This circumstance, like so many similar ones in the region, was never clearly…