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predict peace after election win  Released on 2012-10-17 17:00
GMT  Email-ID 84754 Date 2011-07-03 18:07:07 Thai red shirts
predict peace after election win 03 Jul 2011 14:33  Source:
reuters // Reuters  (Recasts with new details throughout)  By
Michael Perry  UDON THANI, Thailand, July 3 (Reuters) - The
message from Thailand's rural heartlands, a bastion of red-shirt
protesters who paralysed Bangkok last year, was simple.
"Thailand will be peaceful," said Kwanchai Praipana, a protest
leader in northeastern Udon Thani province, after the movement's
populist hero Thaksin Shinawatra's sister won Sunday's national
elections.  The red shirts celebrated Yingluck Shinawatra's
strong performance in the election as a peoples' victory in a
sometimes violent, six-year political  Many had feared the
election would deepen a divide in