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Thailand, which shares a long history and borders with Myanmar, should do more to resolve the crisis there, experts and activists said, a year after the Burmese military seized power in a coup. While the Thai Ministry of Foreign Affairs says it has called for a peaceful solution to the unrest in neighboring Myanmar, U Kyaw Win, executive director of the Burma Human Rights Network, says it is not near enough. Thailand “should be more vocal than Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore because Thailand, as a frontline state, faces more consequences than these three countries, economically and in terms of security,”...