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Violence used in crowd dispersal: National Human Rights Commissioner

Thailand's National Human Rights Commission concluded on Monday that violence was used by the police during their operation to disperse the anti-government demonstrators on October 7, according to a commissioner. ...full story at Bangkok Post

from Bangkok Post on Mon, Oct 13 2008

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