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Thailand government lifts emergency

Bangkok: Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra today lifted a nearly two-month-old emergency in Bangkok and surrounding areas and replaced it with a security law after political violence against her government eased.  The Cabinet lifted the

PTI Updated on: March 18, 2014 15:58 IST


But caretaker Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Surapong Towichukchaikul said the government would continue to use the same CMPO structure to enforce the ISA.  

Violence had erupted in Bangkok and other parts of the country ahead and during the February 2 snap polls, boycotted by main opposition Democrat Party demanding the ouster of Prime Minister Yingluck.

Twenty-three people have been killed and over 700 injured in the political conflict since November.  

Surapong Tovichakchaikul, chief advisor to the government's Centre for Maintaining Peace and Order (CMPO) which has been set up to handle anti-government protests, had yesterday said the body will ask for the state of emergency to be lifted.

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