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Thailand Awaits a Rigged Referendum

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Aug 07, 2016
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On Aug. 7, Thailand’s 40 million-odd voters are scheduled to go to the polls to vote on a draft constitution that the junta has attempted to rig so thoroughly that it thinks it can’t lose, although it might anyway.

The goal of the draft constitution – the country’s 19th since the military staged its first coup in 1932 – is plainly designed to perpetuate …

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