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The Rageh Omaar Report - Thailand - Living dangerously
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The Rageh Omaar Report - Thailand - Living dangerously

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Bangkok bears the scars of a two-month standoff when Rageh Omaar arrives to walk its emptied streets and ask what comes next. He reports on the "red shirt" protesters who occupied the city center demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva and fresh elections, and traces their anger back to the 2006 coup that removed Thaksin Shinawatra, the populist leader still revered across Thailand's rural north and northeast. Omaar talks to people on both sides of a divide that runs between Bangkok's urban elite and a working-class base that saw Abhisit's 2009 rise to power through a parliamentary vote, rather than the ballot box, as proof the system was rigged against them. The report weighs the human cost of the crackdown that ended the protests against the economic damage done to a paralyzed capital in Southeast Asia's second-largest economy. It closes without resolution, leaving Thailand's political rift, and the question of what a lasting settlement between Bangkok and the countryside might look like, wide open.