Former Thai PM Thaksin tells junta to mind the drought, not his New Year gifts


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  • Sunday, 03 Apr 2016

Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra looks on as he speaks to Reuters during an interview in Singapore February 23, 2016. REUTERS/Edgar Su

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said on Sunday the military government should focus on dealing with the country's problems after soldiers seized thousands of red plastic bowls he and his sister sent supporters as a New Year gift.

A decade of turbulent politics has pitted Thaksin and his sister, former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, against a royalist-military establishment that sees the Shinawatras as a threat.

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