BANGKOK, Sept 16 – Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said today the government would avoid using force, but rather turn to negotiation, in dealing with rubber growers’ protests in the southern province of Nakhon Si Thammarat.

She was referring to a clash between the authorities and protesters at Kuan Nong Hong intersection of Cha-uad district where several government vehicles were torched and a 40-year-old man was injured.

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