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Originally published March 18, 2010
Al Jazeera, unfortunately not carried by Thailand’s monopolist cable TV company TrueVisions — an offspring of Thaksin’s old IBC — recently aired this 24-minutes “Inside Story: Thailand’s Blood Sacrifice” embedded below. Something to sit back and relax a little after those nervous days.
Worth a watch. The London School of Economics’
Tim Forsyth does most of the talking and we learn that since Thaksin some checks and balances are missing and that Thai farmers have much more pressing needs, are much more worried about the drought than who’s the prime minister in Bangkok. Or Thaksin, the rainmaker? When his reds splashed blood at the prime minister’s house there was heavy rain.
Without violence the red march has already become a non-event for most international media. It’s therefore nice to see some major news network nevertheless attempting to dot the i’s and cross the t’s. Meaning Thailand’s not yet the banana republic she’s perceived as by many.
Here we go:
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