The Cresting of Thaksinism?
The Thai Senate’s decisive 141-0 vote Monday killing the Pheu Thai Party’s blanket amnesty bill, which would have absolved everybody of political guilt going back to 2004 and cleared the way for the return of Thaksin Shinawatra from exile, is an indication of how badly the former prime minister has misjudged Thailand’s political temperature.
Thailand had…
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