Pallop Pinmanee eventually switched sides and became an adviser to Thaksin's younger sister Yingluck Shinawatra while she was serving as prime minister.
22 Facts About Pallop Pinmanee
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Pallop Pinmanee was a member of Class Seven of the Chulachomklao Royal Military Academy, the "young Turks", where he befriended classmate Chamlong Srimuang.
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Pallop Pinmanee began his military career as a commando and self-professed assassin.
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Pallop Pinmanee admitted masterminding a number of assassination attempts against General Arthit Kamlang-ek, commander of the Army under Prem.
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Pallop Pinmanee participated in guerrilla-warfare missions in Laos in 1966 and 1967 and was appointed chief of the Special Thai Ranger Army, a volunteer unit which carried out clandestine, anti-communist guerrilla operations financed by the US Central Intelligence Agency against the North Vietnamese Army along the Ho Chi Minh Trail in the Kingdom of Laos, in 1968.
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Pallop Pinmanee was appointed a senator by the military-led government in 1979, and became commander of the 19th Infantry Regiment the following year.
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Pallop Pinmanee participated in operations along the Thai-Cambodian border in 1986 and 1987.
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Pallop Pinmanee participated in the 1977 coup against the ultra-conservative government of Tanin Kraivixien.
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When it became clear that the royal family continued to support Prem, the coup failed; although Pallop Pinmanee fled to the Lao People's Democratic Republic to escape punishment, he was jailed for two months by the Laotian government.
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Pallop Pinmanee later admitted masterminding a number of assassination attempts against General Arthit Kamlang-ek, commander of the army in Prem's administration.
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Pallop Pinmanee was appointed commander of the Southern Peace Enhancement Center to deal with insurgency in southern Thailand.
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Pallop Pinmanee was immediately ordered out of the area, and later tendered his resignation as commander of the Southern Peace Enhancement Center.
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The forward command of the Internal Security Operations Command, which Pallop Pinmanee headed, was dissolved.
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Pallop Pinmanee threatened Thaksin with a military coup if Thaksin did not resign from the premiership.
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Pallop Pinmanee promised to use "secret tricks" and negotiation, avoiding violent clashes: "Don't see me as a man who favours violence".
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Pallop Pinmanee served as an advisor to Thaksin's sister Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra.
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Pallop Pinmanee proposed the collecting of 20,000 signatures to submit an amnesty bill to parliament, as one way to bring Thaksin back if the national reconciliation proposal by the King Prajadhipok Institute does not result in an amnesty for the exiled politician.
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Pallop Pinmanee said the Pheu Thai Party promised an amnesty bill allowing Thaksin to come back, during the election campaign in Buri Ram last year, and the pledge must be fulfilled.
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Pallop Pinmanee divulged that he had met Thaksin in person and that he had agreed with the idea of the amnesty bill.
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Pallop Pinmanee was recruited as an advisor to a new movement led by Suporn Attawong, Deputy secretary-general to the prime minister and red-shirt leader.
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Pallop Pinmanee is opposed to the National Council for Peace and Order, the ruling junta since 2014.
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Pallop Pinmanee used to run for election in constituency one Bangkok, belongs to the Democrat Party in the general election at the end of 1996, but was not elected.