BANGKOK: A powerful ethnic Wa drug lord in Myanmar has offered nearly US$2mil (RM7.6mil) to have Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra killed, one of Thaksin's deputies said yesterday.
Deputy Prime Minister Chavalit Yongchaiyudh said there was “reliable” intelligence that Bao Youxiang, commander of the United Wa State Army (UWSA) aligned with Yangon, was responsible for putting a bounty on Thaksin's head.
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