http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/12/AR2009021200632.html
Angelina Jolie threw her 2 cents in after visiting a Thai refugee camp for Rohingya, a Muslim minority people fleeing nearby Myanmar's military dictatorship. As we discussed earlier, seen on CNN, the Thai government is strictly forbidding this group into the country.
Reasons: Muslim insurgency is on the rise in the south of Thailand, and the government has had its fair share of instability in the last year; they don't need the slightest of disruptions. Also, Myanmar (formerly Burma) haven't had the strongest of diplomacy, dating back to the British nearly colonizing both, but the Thai exerccised enough suaveness to avert a British footprint in their land.
Jolie, did have to the wisdom to not take a direct shot at the crown; therefore she has no reason to worry about the ever-popular Lese Majeste law.
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Great comments here and I agree with you that Jolie visited the refugee camp, but as she did not insult the crown, she should be all right. The Thais are refusing reporters and others into their country so as not to incur negatavism and support for the insurgents in their country. Thailand is taking a page out of its history book and not allowing others into the counry since it escaped European colonialism. Jolie and Pitt vistited the camps but did not make any disparaging remarks against the government.
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