FAR EAST CORRESPONDENT — Few countries are as divided over politics as Thailand. On the streets of Bangkok, the confrontation between Red and Yellow shirts always seems close to the breaking-point, with the struggle so thoroughly dominating the national psyche that other, potentially greater, issues are sidelined.

Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra is well aware of this and in fact made a timely visit to the country’s much troubled south amid an escalation of violence aimed squarely at local school teachers.

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