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Thailand STATE OF NATIONAL SECURITY
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Figure 13. Areas of Insurgent and Separatist Activity, 1987.
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Figure 14. Areas of External Threat and Instability, 1987.
Persistent armed insurgency had been viewed by a succession
of Thai governments as the nation's greatest long-term security
problem. In the early 1980s, although insurgent activity had been
virtually eliminated, the Thai government continued to fear a
recurrence of the problem. Bounded on the west by Burma and on
the south by Malaysia, where domestic insurgencies also plagued
governing powers, Thailand continued to guard against the spread
of such activity across its borders. With the threat of its own
communist-supported insurgency lessened by the early 1980s, the
Thai government strengthened its defenses against attack by
external armed forces as large contingents of Vietnamese army
troops continued to occupy neighboring Cambodia.
Data as of September 1987
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