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Thai PM Hopeful Seeks to End Cycle of Coups

Bangkok – Pita Limjaroenrat was on a Thai Airways flight from New York on September 19, 2006, bound for Bangkok to attend his father’s funeral. En route, the aircraft stopped in London.

That day, on that very plane, Thailand’s then-Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was wrestling with what would abruptly end his term: A Thai army chief had staged a coup in Bangkok, usurping the billionaire politician who had been