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Bangkok's Thammasat University Uprising
Nudged by a newly-freed media and an increasingly prosperous Chinese minority, the government of Thailand is being asked to come clean on the nation's history, including bits that have been swept under the carpet -- like the bloody suppression of a students uprising in 1976.
Emerging from the shadow of decades of military rule, Thailand is today seen as well on its way to establishing a stable ....
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.... to terms with their own history, both modern and pre-modern.
Taking a lead in exposing the gaps in official history is the Thai media, which in the past decade has grown more prolific and independent than its counterparts in much of South-East Asia.
An example of its role was early in 1996, when a mob attacked the house of Saphin Kaew-Ngaarn-Prasert in north-east Thailand's Nakhon Ratchasima province. The researcher had angered natio ....
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