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Thaksin: Neither Out of Sight Nor Out of Mind

Seth Mydans, in the IHT:

Really, he is not up to anything.

Just doing a little shopping, taking a well-earned rest. What is everybody so worked up about?

From China to Hong Kong to Bali, Thailand’s deposed prime minister, Thaksin Shinawatra, ousted in September in a coup, has been circling his country, mostly shopping for blazers, handbags, things like that; playing a little golf.

And whoops! Wherever he goes, reporters seem to catch up with him.

Almost every day, it seems, he is in the newspapers back home, the coup victim who just won’t go away.

At one point last week he ran playfully from reporters in a Hong Kong department store before turning to tell them, “I have no plan yet.”

He seems to be having a much better time than the generals who ousted him, struggling to master the bucking bronco of a country he left behind.

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