BANGKOK: The last time Thai activist Kanthoop saw her father he brushed past her like she was “invisible,” a microcosm of bitter political divisions that have wracked Thailand and repeatedly spilled into unrest.

“I almost wondered if I was a ghost,” recalled Kanthoop, who was ostracized and forced to change her name because she disagreed with her family’s royalist “Yellow Shirt” political inclinations.

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