Word: ngos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...society -- students, workers, businessmen, even bureaucrats -- to participate in mass demonstrations, though he proved regrettably unable to prevent some from turning to rock-throwing violence. Gothom Arya, vice chairman of the Campaign for Popular Democracy, an academics' group, asserts that "everybody rallied behind the students: the political parties, the NGOS ((influential nongovernmental welfare organizations)) and the middle class. This represented | something very new in Thai politics. The middle class is more powerful than ever before...