Photography by Richard Humphries
Text by Gerry McDermott
Thailand’s insurgency express is a colorful, aging, and rickety train that winds its way across the country’s southern provinces of Songkhla, Pattani, Yala, and Narathiwat. Beginning in Hat Yai, the economic capital of the South, the train ends its journey in Sungai Golok, a neon-soaked red-light town and smuggling center on the Malaysian border.