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Faced with a potential prison term for questioning historical accounts of an elephant battle involving an ancient Thai warrior king, 85-year old scholar and respected social critic Sulak Sirivaksa appealed to monarch Maha Vajiralongkorn for a royal reprieve. The charge, filed in late 2014 by two army officials under the kingdom’s lese majeste law, was […]