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| Yingluck Says Thai Protests Won't Prompt Repeat of Military Coup |
| 2013-12-12 |
| [BUSINESSWEEK] Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said protests that forced her to call a snap election earlier this week won't lead to a military coup like the one that ousted her brother, Thaksin Shinawatra, in 2006. "I don't think the military would do that again," Yingluck said at a briefing in Bangkok yesterday. "Because the past experience doesn't give any answer." The demonstrators accuse parties linked to Thaksin of vote-buying and Yingluck's administration of corruption and economic mismanagement. They have called for an appointed committee of "good people" to implement political reforms before handing power to a new government. |
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