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Thu 12 Dec 2008Bangkok flights resume as protesters depart
FLIGHTS HAVE started arriving back at Bangkok's main airport after a week of occupation by anti-government protesters, putting the country on the long road back to normality after a court removed Thailand's prime minister, writes Clifford Coonanin Bangkok
Truckloads of cheering members of the People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) left the Suvarnabhumi international airport and the domestic Don Muang terminal after a week in which they cut off the capital's main access to the outside world, leaving hundreds of thousands of tourists stranded.
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