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General Prayut Chan-o-cha becomes interim leader of Thailand in a military coup d'état, following six months of political turmoil.
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Prayut Chan-o-cha
Prime Minister of Thailand from 2014 to 2023
Prayut Chan-o-cha is a former Thai politician, army officer and dictator who became the 29th prime minister of Thailand after seizing power in the 2014 coup d'état and served until 2023. He was concurrently the minister of defence in his own government from 2019 to 2023. Prayut…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
2014 Thai coup d'état
Military coup in Thailand
On 22 May 2014, the Royal Thai Armed Forces, led by General Prayut Chan-o-cha, the commander-in-chief of the Royal Thai Army, launched a coup d'état, the twelfth since the country's first coup in 1932, against the caretaker government following six months of political crisis.…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)