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Thailand — which democracy?

Karuna Buakamsri, news anchor at Channel 3 Bangkok writes movingly about the 1992 protests in Bangkok when activists were unarmed and filled with ideals.  With her then, among the protesters, were young idealists who became leaders of the now opposing Yellow and Red shirt movements — one which ransacked the Prime Minister’s office and occupied the airport, the other which set fire to central Bangkok.  Both claim they are fighting for democracy. 

“I can’t see any justice or democracy in what they have done,”  writes Karuna Karuna Buakamsri who had to flee from her burning television station building. 

 

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