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Sat 12 Dec 2008Stuck between royalists and tycoons, Thai democrats see little to smile about
As Thailand's problems grow by the day, a genuine democrat sees a long struggle ahead, writes Clifford Coonan
THE GRINS are getting thin in the country known as the Land of Smiles. It's been weeks of tumult in the Thai capital, with the leadership decamping to Chiang Mai in the north before a court dissolved the government amid violence and mayhem on the streets of Bangkok.
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