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Upland citizenship

February 12th, 2008 by Andrew Walker · 2 Comments

In the lead-up to last year’s election I clipped the following report from the Bangkok Post (21 December 2007):
Hill tribesmen to be given Thai citizenship
Deputy Prime Minister Sonthi Boonyaratkalin said the government will give citizenship to 353,000 people who have lived in Thailand for more than 10 years. These people are mostly hill tribesmen living in [...]

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