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Bangkok – Former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra will be prosecuted for insulting the monarchy, the attorney general’s office said Wednesday, over comments he made almost a decade ago.
He returned to Thailand last year as his Pheu Thai party took power at the head of a coalition government. More than 270 people have been charged with lese-majeste since the protests, accoridng to Thai Lawyers for Human Rights. But his return to the kingdom, on the very day Pheu Thai’s Srettha Thavisin came to power as PM in alliance with pro-military parties, led many to conclude a deal had been done to cut his jail time.
For the past two decades, Thai politics has been largely defined by a tussle for dominance between the kingdom’s pro-royalist, pro-military establishment and Thaksin and his allies.
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