Angkhana, a senator and former commissioner of the National Human Rights Commission of Thailand, has long been the subject of a state-sponsored campaign of intimidation for her frontline work in advocating for the rights of Thailand’s Muslim community. Thailand’s military has a documented history of human rights abuses, including during the 2010 Red Shirt Protests, which saw the army deployed under a strict state of emergency, leading to over 80 fatalities. However, military repression in the Deep South rarely receives the same level of publicity compared to other provinces in the country, due to severe political neglect, the framing of abuses as counter-terrorism measures, and geographic marginalization. This has resulted in the scale of abuses in the Deep South being effectively invisible, with minimal investigations conducted into such cases. Angkhana’s husband, Somchai Neelaphaijit, a prominent human rights lawyer, was last seen being pushed into a car by a group of men against his will in early 2004.