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Summary:Emotional scenes outside a Bangkok jail on September 17, 1978, as sixteen former students, jailed for their part in clashes with police at Thammasat University in 1976, were released under a new amnesty law. Two years earlier, when police and troops stormed the university, students were protesting over the presence in the country of the former military ruler of Thailand, Marshal Kittikachorn.
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Location:THAILAND BANGKOK
Reuters ID:LDL001110H5BN
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