the violence taking pace in the southern border provinces over the past three years, or 35 months between 2004 and 2006, be broken down as follows in 2004,1850 violent incidents took place while 2297 and 1622 incidents ( the incidents in December were not included) occurred in 2005 and 2006, respectively. Of these three years, the highest incidents occurred in 2005. But considering the injuries and deaths taking place over the past three years, it appeared that more people were injured and killed in the southern violence in 2006 than those injured and killed in 2004 and 2005 approximately 1699 people were injued and killed in 2006 1643 in 2005 and 1438 in 2004 and the violence was caused by bombings more than arson attacks which were previously used