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The prominent political activist Chalard Worachat has died of a heart attack at his home in Bangkok, according to a Thai PBS World report. The 78 year old rose to prominence as a serial hunger striker, frequently forgoing food to protest political developments. Once the Democrat MP for Trat province in 1979, and then for Bangkok in 1986, he left the party to become deputy leader of the Mass Party. He later resigned from that position to pursue extra-parliamentary political action, with frequent hunger strikes becoming his modus operandi. Chalard resorted to hunger strikes on multiple occasions, to get his […]

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