16-10-2015 11:29 via uk.news.yahoo.com

Field marshalling - Thai military launches rural education plan

By Panarat Thepgumpanat and Amy Sawitta Lefevre BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's junta will send soldiers to rural areas to educate villagers on topics from careers to farming, a junta spokesman said on Friday, but critics say the scheme is a thinly veiled attempt to re-educate dissenters. The plan will see troops offering advice to villagers, said Colonel Winthai Suvaree, spokesman for the junta, or National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO), but it is mostly aimed at telling villagers "the trut
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