Thaksin Country: a People Power Party rally in northeastern Yasothon province
Back in the early cretaceous period, some 120 million years ago, a ferocious, flesh-eating creature roamed Thailand. It had four-inch teeth, measured 21 feet from snout to tail and ate other dinosaurs. When they discovered its bones in 1996 in a jungle riverbed, scientists called it Siamotyrannus isanensis , after the country's old name, Siam, and the impoverished northeastern Thai region where the bones lay, Isaan.
With campaigning underway for a Dec. 23 general election, and Isaan a key battleground, dinosaurs again roam the region political ones this time. Lumbering onto a...
