A Thai court on Tuesday convicted nine young Muslim men from southern Thailand of planning to set off a car bomb in the capital, in a case in which many of the defendants said they were tortured into making false confessions, Associated Press reports. The convicts were detained by Bangkok police during an October 2016 dragnet operation that saw more than 100 Malay youth from the far South rounded up in and around Bangkok, according to The Nation. Separatist militants responded to the roundup with a powerful home-made bomb that ripped through street-food stalls in Pattani. In recent years, a new wave of young radicals emerged. The new generation of militants embarked on a campaign of terror through the use of cars as powerful explosive devices, writes Oliver Ward for Asean Today.