Ex-communists pocket cash benefits in Thai amnesty deal

T25 June 2017

al jazeera

Final payouts made as part of agreement with government that led to the surrender of 80,000 party members in 1980.

The government of Thailand has distributed cash benefits to former members of the now-defunct Communist party in the final stage of an amnesty deal.

More than 6,000 former Communist party members received nearly $7,000 each.

At a ceremony at the army club building in Bangkok on Wednesday, Prawit Wongsuwan, Thailand’s deputy prime minister, met 294 former communist comrades. Tiếp tục đọc “Ex-communists pocket cash benefits in Thai amnesty deal”