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Thai Parliament Passes Amnesty Bill

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Nov 01, 2013
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After more than two years of ducking and weaving, Thailand’s ruling Pheu Thai Party has defied public outrage to push through a controversial bill granting blanket amnesty to participants on both sides of the barricades in bloody riots that took place in Bangkok in 2010 – and possibly to exiled former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra as well.

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