Thaksin’s Shadow Looms Over Sister’s Impeachment in Thailand
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Thailand’s former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra finds out Friday if she will be banned from politics for five years by a junta-appointed legislature stacked with officers from a military that has twice toppled governments her family headed in coups.
The impeachment case against Yingluck, 47, who was removed from office before a May putsch, is ostensibly about her handling of an allegedly graft-riddled rice purchasing program, for which she also faces criminal charges. Yet, it has more to do with a decade-long vendetta aimed at erasing her family’s influence after victories in every national election since 2001.