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HISTORICAL FACTS: Thaksin 16 years on coup was a stab in the back - Caught on Camera

Soldiers relax on top of their armoured car on Ratchadamnoen Avenue on the night of Sept 19, 2006, as army leaders launched their coup against then-prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra. (Bangkok Post photo)

Thaksin Shinawatra has revealed what he still feels and what he is looking forward to, 16 years to the day after he was purged from power by one of the many Thai military coups.

"The coup was mapped out behind my back. I was stabbed in the back by soldiers," he said in a Facebook message posted on Monday.

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