Thailand: Buddhist Feud Threatens Fragile Peace

Across history, a political strain of militant Buddhism has periodically surfaced throughout Asia, from Imperial Japan to contemporary Myanmar and now Thailand, where political order has been in flux since the 2001 rise of populist politician Thaksin Shinawatra. After years of chaotic street protests in Bangkok, culminating in a 2014 military coup and the exile of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, relative calm fell over the kingdom. That calm was shattered in mid-February by protesting monks....