The 2006 Thailand coup d'état took place on Tuesday 19 September 2006, when
the Royal Thai Army staged a coup against the government of caretaker Prime
Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. The coup, which was Thailand's first in fifteen
years, followed a year-long political crisis involving Thaksin and political
opponents and occurred less than a month before nation-wide House elections were
originally scheduled to be held. The military cancelled the upcoming elections,
suspended the Constit.....

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