In the wake of the coup, different agencies
investigate former PM Yingluck
In
November of last year, a Thai businessman with close connections to the leaders
of the Bangkok protests that eventually drove the Pheu Thai government from
power said the real reason for the protest wasn’t just to oust the government.
The
real motivation, he said, was to drive every trace of former Prime Minister
Thaksin Shinawatra not just from power but from the country and to eradicate
any vestigial remnants of his influence. Now, with the coup that took place on
May 22 and a military government installed, government agencies are going after
Thaksin’s sister Yingluck, the former Pheu Thai prime minister, and political
figures close to her.
Bangkok
sources say the plan is to drive her into exile with her brother, put her in
jail or give her a sentence that would prohibit her from entering politics
again when the junta allows new elections, probably in October 2015.
“This
has been the plan from the start. What they want to do is hang a criminal
conviction on [Yingluck] and compel her to flee,” said a longtime observer of
Thai politics. “I think they want to force the Shinawatras and other related
clans out of the country.”
Getting
rid of the family is a mantra for the business community and the elites in
Bangkok, who view Thaksin’s social policies, put in place when he came into
office in 2001, as ruining the country. They were rumored to have offered
Thaksin a chance to liquidate his assets in Thailand when the conflict started
last year.
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