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Thai Students on a Collision Course with Royalty

Could a murderous history repeat itself?

Our Correspondent
Aug 13, 2020
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Thailand’s erratic king, Maha Vajiralongkorn, flew into his increasingly restive kingdom on August 12 from his home in Germany amid widespread student protests, to swear in a new cabinet put together by the junta that has run the country since a 2014 coup.

The king – not bothering to wear a face-mask in the middle of a pandemic – called for “order and p…

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