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Bangkok’s Uneasy Calm Masks Succession Struggle

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Apr 10, 2014
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Although Bangkok survived last weekend without a physical confrontation between competing demonstrators, a grim struggle is still going on behind the scenes for primacy over the succession to seriously ailing King Bhumibol Adulyadej, at 87 years of age the world’s longest-ruling monarch.

The battle between the two sides has been characterized as one betw…

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