Word: thais
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Anni Rubinger, Melanie Stephens, Simonetta Toraldo Photographers: Terry Ashe, P.F. Bentley, William Campbell, Greg Davis, Rudi Frey, Dirck Halstead, Kenneth Jarecke, Cynthia Johnson, Shelly Katz, David Hume Kennerly, Steve Liss, Christopher Morris, Robin Moyer, Carl Mydans, James Nachtwey, Matthew Naythons, Robert Nickelsberg, Chris Niedenthal, David Rubinger, Anthony Suau, Ted Thai, Diana Walker...
...Anni Rubinger, Melanie Stephens, Simonetta Toraldo Photographers: Terry Ashe, P.F. Bentley, William Campbell, Greg Davis, Rudi Frey, Dirck Halstead, Kenneth Jarecke, Cynthia Johnson, Shelly Katz, David Hume Kennerly, Steve Liss, Christopher Morris, Robin Moyer, Carl Mydans, James Nachtwey, Matthew Naythons, Robert Nickelsberg, Chris Niedenthal, David Rubinger, Anthony Suau, Ted Thai, Diana Walker...
...Royal Thai government declared a state of emergency in Bangkok and surrounding areas on May 17 after clashes between demonstrators and authorities...
Within hours Suchinda and Chamlong did announce an agreement. Suchinda promised that his military-dominated government would go along with some amendments to the Thai constitution aimed at reducing the soldiers' authority; parliament is to begin considering them this week. He also pledged to release thousands of arrested protesters (including Chamlong, who had been ushered from a jail cell to the King's chambers) and to consider lifting a state of emergency. Chamlong, for his part, appealed for an end to protest demonstrations that had turned into riots...
...what end? There is no certainty that Suchinda's departure will end the crisis. Under the key amendment a future Thai Prime Minister would have to be an elected member of parliament. But the military proved during the riots that it is determined to hang on and ready to use its guns to do so. On the other hand, Chamlong's forces for the first time united students, workers and members of the greatly expanded middle class, proving that newly affluent Thais will no longer put up with military rule as meekly as they have for many decades...