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Article: Thailand Slides Toward Civil War.(International Edition; WORLD AFFAIRS)
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- December 15, 2008
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Byline: George Wehrfritz and Jaimie Seaton
The public siege of its airports may be over, but the country's political crisis is just heating up.
Last week, after Thailand's high court disbanded the country's ruling party and antigovernment demonstrators finally ended their weeklong occupation of Bangkok's two airports and their three-month siege of Government House, weary stranded travelers could have been forgiven for thinking that the political crisis was over. The estimated 350,000 foreigners who'd been trapped by the blockage have begun their journeys home. Yet for Thailand's citizens, its politicians, its business community and its foreign investors, ...