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Amnesty bill for political protesters submitted

Move Forward proposal covers estimated 4,400 charges laid in protests dating back to 2006

Yellow-shirt demonstrators rally in front of the Metropolitan Police Bureau in Bangkok in 2008. (Bangkok Post file photo)

The Move Forward Party on Thursday submitted a bill to give amnesty to political demonstrators since February 2006, expecting it to restore national unity.

Party leader Chaithawat Tulathon said that the bill was written to pardon all political demonstrators prosecuted since Feb 11, 2006, when the People’s Alliance for Democracy started its protests against the…

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