FILE - In this Nov. 11, 2014 file photo, former Prime Minister Prem Tinsulanonda attends a charity function in Bangkok, Thailand. Prem Tinsulanonda, one of Thailand’s most influential political figures over four decades who served as army commander, prime minister and adviser to the royal palace, has died at age 98. As prime minister, he weathered two attempted coups and was reportedly the target of several assassination plots. Critics questioned his devotion to democracy, and accused him of encouraging, if not engineering, the 2006 coup that ousted elected Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. As prime minister he continued using policies of amnesty and other political means to prompt defections from the communist guerrilla movement.

Source: Washington Post May 26, 2019 05:52 UTC