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| Subject: Thailand's generals warned: no coup Tue Oct 18, 2011 4:25 am | |
| As Thailand's ruling Puea Thai Party confirmed plans to enact legislation allowing it to have a say in military appointments, the exiled former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra warned military leaders against overthrowing the government run by his younger sister Yingluck.
Mr Thaksin said the international community would not accept another coup by the military, which overthrew his democratically elected government in 2006, although he could not rule out the possibility because the military was addicted to power.
''Those who are addicted to ya ba [methamphetamine] will do anything to get the pills,'' Mr Thaksin said during an interview with the Bangkok Post at his base in Dubai.
http://www.smh.com.au/world/thailands-generals-warned-no-coup-20111017-1ltg0.html |
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