BoT Anticipates Baht Weakness

Thailand's interim government has reopened an investigation into former-premier Thaksin Shinawatra's war on drugs, in which 2,500 individuals died, according to Jaran Pukdithanakul, a senior Justice Ministry official. The committee will probe the deaths, which Thaksin said were the result of gang warfare but which human rights activists claim were caused by extrajudicial killings. Thaksin launched his war on drugs, which was popular among rural voters, in 2003, and won an election landslide two years later. The initiative cut drug supplies and pushed up prices, but only for a while before business retuned to normal, according to anti-drug agencies. The

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