Thaksin: Fleeing a Thai coup leader to shake hands with a Fijian coup plotter

Musings from Thailand (Blog) - 11 months ago...

What a paradox. Thaksin Shinawatra, ousted by a coup in Thailand in 2006, flew into Fiji's capital, Suva, yesterday to meet another coup leader, Commodore Frank Bainimarama, who staged a coup in the same year -- only to be ruled illegal by the court there.In some ways, when Thaksin shook hands with Bainimarama to talk about his plan to nvest $300 million in that South Pacific island, he must have been reminded of Gen Sonthi Bunyaratakalin, whose coup sent him out of the country almost thre...