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...state of emergency. The decree didn't deter many in the antigovernment camp. "When the party is over, we are ready to fight," vowed Jantana Klinchan, a sandwich vendor from Saraburi province, as she swayed to a folk song calling for political change. "We are not scared to defend ourselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Battle for Thailand | 9/4/2008 | See Source »

...former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who was deposed in a 2006 military coup and now faces corruption charges. "We are ready to fight," vowed Jantana Klinchan, a sandwich vendor from central Thailand, as she swayed to a folk song calling for political change. "We are not scared to defend ourselves." That kind of brinksmanship may be just what the PAD wants. Its leaders decry the electoral system in Thailand, alleging that vote-buying in poor rural areas largely discredits any poll results. (Indeed, Samak's People Power Party is facing possible dissolution by the courts because of an electoral-fraud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Do Thailand's Protesters Want? | 9/3/2008 | See Source »

...judges enter the court; he wears his translation headphones, something Milosevic never deigned to do. Although his insistence on representing himself is hardly original, the way he expressed it to judges in just one of his growing list of complaints is distinctly, and tellingly, his own. "I will defend myself here as I would from a natural catastrophe," he wrote, "whose right to interfere with me I also dispute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: "Not Guilty" Plea Entered for Karadzic | 8/29/2008 | See Source »

...country? Pack up and leave Afghanistan? Take their money away, take their troops away? Then what? Will we be better off? I came to power when there was no government, no institutions, no laws. Six years on, it's not like that. The overall situation is: we act and defend and bring offenders to justice and put them in jail. Even government offenders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The State of Afghanistan | 8/21/2008 | See Source »

...into the area with orders to kill insurgents. The government has also reportedly sent a shipment of weapons to local militias. General Alexander Yano, head of the country's armed forces, called the insurgent attacks a "virtual declaration of war," while President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo ordered government troops to defend "every inch" of territory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Philippines' Uneasy Peace Broken | 8/21/2008 | See Source »

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