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Thaksin returns to Thailand from post-coup exile
Thu, Feb 28, 2008
Reuters

>BANGKOK, Feb 28 (Reuters) - Ousted Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra returned to his homeland on Thursday for the first time since he was removed from office in a September 2006 military coup.

The telecoms tycoon-turned politician, who was at the United Nations headquarters in New York at the time of the putsch, flew into Bangkok?s new airport on a scheduled Thai Airways flight from Hong Kong.

 

 
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