11 Facts About Panlop Pinmanee

Pallop Pinmanee is a retired Thai Army general who took part in several coups, ordered the massacre of insurgents at Krue Sae Mosque and allegedly played a role in the attempted car-bomb assassination of Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra.

Panlop Pinmanee eventually switched sides and became an adviser to Thaksin's younger sister Yingluck Shinawatra while she was serving as prime minister.

Panlop Pinmanee began his military career as a commando and self-professed assassin.

Panlop Pinmanee admitted masterminding a number of assassination attempts against General Arthit Kamlang-ek, commander of the Army under Prem.

Panlop 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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Panlop Pinmanee participated in operations along the Thai-Cambodian border in 1986 and 1987.

Panlop Pinmanee later admitted masterminding a number of assassination attempts against General Arthit Kamlang-ek, commander of the army in Prem's administration.

Panlop Pinmanee threatened Thaksin with a military coup if Thaksin did not resign from the premiership.

Panlop Pinmanee promised to use "secret tricks" and negotiation, avoiding violent clashes: "Don't see me as a man who favours violence".

Panlop Pinmanee served as an advisor to Thaksin's sister Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra.

Panlop 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.