Just as Thailand's peak tourist season was beginning, protesters and police clashed in Bangkok, leaving at least four people dead and 250 injured. Tens of thousands of antigovernment demonstrators surrounded government buildings on Nov. 30 in a bid to force the resignation of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra. Elected in a landslide in July 2011, the country's first female Premier said she was willing to do anything allowed under the constitution, other than step down, to make the protesters "happy."
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