BANGKOK: With free meals, music concerts and dancing soldiers, Thailand's junta is waging a propaganda offensive to encourage "national happiness" following a military coup that has severely restricted civil liberties.
And now the coup-makers are trying to portray the softer side of military rule, with propaganda programmes on the television and festivities in the streets.
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