Prayut’s enmity with Thaksin’s family goes back more than a decade. — AFP
THE mere mention of Thailand’s ousted former premier Thaksin Shinawatra prompted Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha to walk out of a news conference this week, irked by talk of the exiled political heavyweight’s long-touted return.
As a general in a royalist military that ousted the governments of both Thaksin in 2006 and his sister Yingluck in 2014, Prayut’s enmity with billionaire Shinawatra family goes back more than a decade.
