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Thailand’s Farcical Corruption Charges

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Jan 09, 2014
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The decision by Thailand’s National Anti-Corruption Commission Tuesday to charge 308 lawmakers with abuse of power, most of them from Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra ’s embattled Pheu Thai Party, demonstrates how thoroughly the country’s Bangkok elites control the sinews of power.

They have used the country’s courts repeatedly to accomplish what they …

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