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An anti-government demonstrators climbs up a makeshift barricade with sharp sticks in Bangkok, Thailand, 23 Apr 2010
Thailand Fears More Bloodshed After Grenade Attacks 
Expectations are rising that the military soon will use force to clear the protesters, who have occupied a commercial area for weeks
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Naypyidaw Restricts Regional and Division Commanders |
| By THE IRRAWADDY |
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| By KYAW THEIN KHA |
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| By LALIT K. JHA |
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| By SIMON ROUGHNEEN |
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“လွ်ပ္တစ္ျပက္မွာ ဗံုးခဲြသူကို ခ်က္ခ်င္း ဖမ္းမိတယ္လို႔ ေရးထားတယ္ ...” 
“ရယကတို႔၊ စစ္တပ္၊ ရဲ၊ မီးသတ္ အားလံုး လူ (၂ဝ) ေလာက္ရိွမယ္။ ဆိုင္းေတာင္က ...” 
“အရင္ကဆိုရင္ နအဖက သူတို႔ဟန္ျပခြဲၿပီး ျပည္ပ အဖြဲ႔အစည္းေတြကို အျပစ္ ပံုခ်ေနက်ဗ်။ အခုေတာ့ သူ႔ေဒါက္တုိက္ေတြကို ထိကုန္လို႔လားမသိဘူး၊ နအဖကိုယ္တိုင္ ဆုေတာ္ေငြေတြ ထုတ္ၿပီး တရားခံကို အပူတျပင္း ရွာေနတယ္တဲ့ဗ်။ သူတို႔ ေတာ္ေတာ္အထိနာသြားပံုရတယ္ ...” 
