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Purges to date have centered on Thaksin allies in government, including transfers aimed at severing his influence among the police force.
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Just $5 a month.Īs the political temperature rises, Bangkok-based analysts wonder whether Prayuth’s recently declared ‘war on corruption’ will take aim at Thaksin’s family, including his son Pongthongtae’s Voice TV news station and the SC Asset property company where Yingluck previously served as chief executive officer and Thaksin’s youngest daughter’s husband is now a top executive involved in new property launches.
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Grass roots activists have faced severe repression and surveillance, including firmly enforced bans on political activities and speech.Įnjoying this article? Click here to subscribe for full access. While Thaksin’s political allies, including top ‘Red Shirt’ protest leaders, have been largely silenced by threats to their personal assets and interests, the business interests of Thaksin’s family have been left largely untouched. Thailand’s post-coup stability has been underpinned by a military-calibrated combination of accommodation and repression. Get briefed on the story of the week, and developing stories to watch across the Asia-Pacific. (Privy councilors, however, are not shielded from public criticism under the law.) Diplomat Brief Weekly Newsletter N Thaksin also faces possible anti-royal charges, which under Thailand’s draconian lese majeste law carry possible 15 year prison terms. Prayuth’s government said Thaksin’s allegations of royal palace involvement in last year’s street turmoil threatened national “security, safety and pride” and responded with moves to cancel Thaksin’s passports, revoke his official police titles and strip his royal decorations.
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Those convulsions were launched in response to a proposed political amnesty by the Thaksin-aligned Peua Thai party that would have allowed the criminally convicted Thaksin to return to Thailand a free man. Prayuth has denied that palace advisers played any role in his putsch, which the former army commander has consistently insisted was launched to restore stability after months of debilitating, and at times lethal, protests. The controversy was sparked by Thaksin’s claim in a May interview published by a South Korean newspaper that the royal advisory Privy Council was instrumental in staging the anti-government street protests that served as pretext for the May 2014 military coup that toppled the beleaguered remnant of Thaksin’s sister Yingluck Shinawatra’s elected administration. As self-exiled former premier Thaksin Shinawatra and coup-maker premier Prayuth Chan-ocha trade barbs and threats, including sensitive accusations involving the monarchy, new rounds of confrontation seem more likely than long-term reconciliation. After a year of military-imposed political order, the specter of instability is rising again in Thailand.
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