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  Patani trouble have been brewing since the 1909 Treaty between Thailand and Great Britain. In that treaty Thailand ceded to England her suzerainty, real and imaginary, over the Malay states of Trengganu, Kelantan, Kedah and Perlis-then known as the Unfederated Malay State. This 1909 boundary agreements left the Malay state of Patani,Narathiwatm,Jala and Satul to be absorbed by Thailand. By absorbing these states, the Thais had in fact, burdened themselves with the inevitable minority broblem plagues the Bangkok government to this day. The Thailand-Malaysia boundary inhirited of instability which counld easily exert its influence in the Bangkok or in Kuala Lumpur.
  In 1923, the Malay of Patani rallied themselves against the Thai autorities by refusing to pay tax or land rent which had been unjustly imposed upon them. In the same year they formed a sort of mevement for the Thai yoke,but it was soon smashed by the Thai force. A considerable number of Patani leaders and individuals suspected of being involved in the affairs were arrested and some of them were fortured and executed.
   The Thai Revolution of june 24th 1932 changed the Thai asministrative system from absolute monarxhy to a consitutional monarchy.The Patani state administration too was to be reformed by the new regime. And Patani once more protested.

Patani presented its demands to Bangkok Government as follows :
1- The appointment of a single indivdual with full power to government the four provinces of PataniNarathiwat,Jala
     and satul. He should have the authority to dismiss, suspend or replace all government servants. He must be
     a local-born Patani from either one of the four provinces and he must be elected by the people.

2-  Eighty perxent of the government servants in the four provinces must profess the religion and culture of the
     majority of the people o Patani.

3- As well as Thai language, the Malay language was to be used as the official language.

4- The malay language was to be the medium of instruction in the primary schools.

5- The religious practices and laws of the Patani peole should be recognised and enforced.

6- A board with full power to direct all religious affairs of the state should be established. The board should be
    under the supreme authority of the head of state mentioned in (1).

  A supplementary petition claimed that Malay nationalism could be adopted as the guiding principle of policy in all four provinces.
  An informal talk with Bangkok spokesmen have suggested that Thailand was willing to concede all points except the first. But Patani knows as well as Bangkok that the first point was the key-stone of the whole. And so far from being persuaded to religquish this demand . Che Mahmoud Mayhidden, the yougest son to Sultan Abdul Kadir,the last installed Raja of Patani, was ellected as the leader of Patani nationalists.
  On December 8th, 1941, the Japanes landed in Kelantan and Patani . Patani seaport was taken by the Japanese
occupation the British had tried to edrive the Japanes out by forming the underground movement. Prince Mayhidden was persuaded to cooperate with the Brithish.They led him to believe that if the allied won the war, Patani´s independence would be restored.
  But after the victory of the Allied, Britain was facing an economic crisis and at the same time she also need to cooperate with the United State who , in turn, supported Thailand to regain its independence thus efforts to restore Patani`s independence was never begun by the British.
   After the defeat of Japan, British and Thailand signed atreaty in Singapore in 1946. The Bangkok government handed Patani back to the British and once again its hope for independence was dashed. The Treaty of 1946, however placed Thai economy temporarilly ender foriegn control and alloted 1,500,000 tons of rice to the British as a peace offering.
   The coup d'etate at Bangkok in November 1947 had immediate repercussions in Patni. The Malahy nationalists of Patani appealed to London to conduct as inquiry into the affairs of Patani and Satul prior to recognition of the new Thai Government by British . But nothing cameof these appeals. The Bristish recognised the Thai Government thouth mking it understood in Bangkok that Britain expected a just solution to the Patani's case.
   As tension and unrest were running high in Patani, the Patani leaders sent a series of cables to the United Nations demanding an immediate investigation by th Security Council into Thailand's "fascist way" of administration and holding of a plebiscite under international supervision to determine the future form of government of the Malay state of Patani. The Patani people rested their case on article 3 of the Atlantic Character in which the Allies had promised to "respect the rights of all people to choose the form of government under which they will live", and expressing the "wish to see the sovereign right and self-government be rstored to those who have been forcibly deprived of them."
   By a treaty signed with Britain and India on January 1st, 1946, Thailand renounced all war-time acquisitions of the Malayan territory and agree that no canal linking the gulf of Siam with the Indian Ocean would be cut across the Thai territory without British concurrence.
   In 1948, Patani appealed to the Unided Nations, but  it did not received what it deserved.