<div>MARA Patani, the umbrella organization for the insurgency movement in the restive three southernmost provinces of Thailand -- Pattani, Yala, and Narathiwat, and four districts of Sonkhla -- has just had their first meeting with media. </div>

<div> <div>Thailand made another positive signal toward the peace process in the Deep South when the police revealed that another elderly jailed insurgent will be granted early release.&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Pol Lt Gen Anurut Krisanakaraket, Director of Southern Border Provinces Police Operation Centre (SBPOC), revealed in an Isara News Agency report on Tuesday that the SBPOC will propose to the Justice Ministry that an early release be granted to Da-o Maseng, better known as Haji Da-o Thanam, a former member of Patani United Liberation Organization (PULO), who has been in jail for 1 </div></div>