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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail Yahoo! Search Search: Sign InNew User? Sign Up News Home - Help Navigation Primary Navigation Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Secondary Navigation Australia China India Indonesia Japan Malaysia Philippines Thailand Vietnam Search Search: Thailand revokes ousted PM Thaksin's passport By MICHAEL CASEY,Associated Press Writer AP - Thursday, April 16 BANGKOK - Thailand's government has revoked the personal passport of ousted and exiled Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra following several days of demonstrations that paralyzed Bangkok, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said Wednesday. ADVERTISEMENT Thaksin, whom the government accuses of stoking the recent protests, has been on the run since he fled the country ahead of a conviction on corruption charges last year. He has returned to Thailand only once _ briefly _ while his allies were in power last year The revocation makes his passport invalid if he cannot secure other travel papers. Since fleeing, Thaksin has been spotted in the Central America, London, Dubai and Hong Kong among other places. He has said before that several countries have offered to issue him passports. "If we believe the person who holds the passport is doing anything that could undermine the security of the nation, then we have the right to revoke the passport," Foreign Ministry spokesman Tharit Charungvat said. The document was revoked Sunday, he said. The government has already revoked his diplomatic passport. The move comes a day after protests led by Thaksin's supporters ended in the face of a mounting military crackdown. The demonstrations forced the cancellation of a major Asian summit, paralyzed the capital for days and left two dead and 123 injured before leaders called them off. A state of emergency remained in place Wednesday with soldiers continuing to patrol key intersections in the capital. Police are searching for the protest leaders, only three of whom are in custody, checking airports in case some tried to flee the country, local television stations said. The three in custody are expected in court Thursday, their lawyers said. Bringing the protests to an end and rounding up the leaders may prove to be the easy part, analysts said Wednesday. The harder task will be to restore the country's battered image abroad and heal internal divisions _ which have caused continuing unrest since Thaksin's ouster in a 2006 coup. Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva struck a conciliatory but tough stance hours after the protest ended, insisting that protest leaders would be prosecuted but also offering to sit down with all parties to settle the country's crisis, which dates to the 2006 coup that unseated Thaksin. The protests were only the latest in a long-simmering conflict _ triggered by Thaksin's ouster _ that has split many Thais into two groups. Thaksin's "red shirts" are drawn largely from the impoverished countryside where his populist policies have broad support. On the other side are the "yellow shirts," a mix of the ruling elite royalists, academics, professionals and retired military. Following the coup, Thaksin's allies were returned to power, setting off prolonged demonstrations by the yellow shirts that culminated in the weeklong occupation of Bangkok's airports late last year. Those protests ended only after court rulings removed two prime ministers from office, paving the way for Abhisit's rise to power, but setting off the rival _ and most recent _ demonstrations. "We are at a critical juncture now," said Thitinan Pongsidhirak, a political scientist at Bangkok's Chulalongkorn University. "Will the uprising we've seen be taken as a wake up call by the Abhisit government or be seen as just a nuisance, something suppressed by the government?" Email Story IM Story Printable View Blog This Recommend this article 0 users recommend Sign in to recommend this article » Most Recommended Stories » Related Articles: Asia Pacific 6 killed in suicide attack on Pakistan police postAP - 1 hour 11 minutes ago Mumbai attacks trial in disarray as lawyer sackedAFP - 2 hours 8 minutes ago Fiji military ruler tightens gripAFP - 2 hours 25 minutes ago South Korea to curb North's arms tradeReuters - 2 hours 34 minutes ago Police hold Tiananmen activist on sensitive dayAP - Thursday, April 16 Most Popular – Asia Pacific Viewed Police nab Norwegian pair during high-speed sex Bad mood, better recall, researchers find Obamas' new dog Bo takes a bow Harry Potter actor arrested over cannabis find Goldman Sachs lost $1.02 bln in December 2008 View Complete List » Search: Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Copyright © 2009 Yahoo! Southeast Asia Pte Ltd. (Co. Reg. No. 199700735D). All Rights Reserved. Privacy Policy - Terms of Service - Community - Intellectual Property Rights Policy - Help

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