Supalak Ganjanakhundee’s blog over at The Nation has a post that takes on the question of comparisons between the politics of Burma and Thailand. The bulk of the argument in the post is taken from a recent statement by Brigadier Kyaw Hsan, Burma’s Minister for Information.
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