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The Quiet Coup; The Army's power grab was bloodless, but that doesn't mean that democracy hasn't suffered a blow.(Thaksin Shinawatra)
Byline: George Wehrfritz (With Sonia Kolesnikov-Jessop in Singapore and Joe Cochrane in Jakarta)
The image is steeped in irony. As tanks rolled into Bangkok to overthrow his six-year-old government on the night of Sept. 19, Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was hunkered down at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York. The former telecommunications billionaire, who once owned a Thai TV station himself, could persuade only one channel to air his rambling emergency decree ordering troops back to barracks. Unsurprisingly, the message fell on deaf ears. The next day Army Cmdr. Sonthi Boonyaratkalin imposed sweeping curbs on civil liberties, isolated some top Army ...
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