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Thailand: Pro-Democracy Taxi Driver's Suicide

Written byPreetam Rai
Posted 3 November 2006 14:50 GMT

Bangkok Pundit reflects on the suicide of a taxi driver. The driver hanged himself off a pedestrian bridge in Bangkok. His suicide note said that he was sacrificing himself for democracy. The same driver has earlier tried to kill himself by ramming his taxi into a tank immediately after the coup in Thailand.

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