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The public relations company Edelman [9] has confirmed that its Washington and Hong Kong offices are handling media relations for the deposed Prime Minister of Thailand, Thaksin Shinawatra [10]. A September 2006 military coup saw Thaksin, a controversial media mogul and politician, toppled from power while he was in New York. "We are supporting him as a private citizen in his efforts to return back to his home country," said Alan VanderMolen from Edelman Asia-Pacific. The Thai paper The Nation reports [11] that Barbour, Griffith and Rogers [12] is also working for Thaskin, to "promote democracy in Asia." While Thaksin was popular in rural areas, he was also noted for suppressing critical media [13] and launching a brutal military response to increasing violence in the largely Muslim south of the country.
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[4] http://dev.prwatch.org/topics/human-rights
[5] http://dev.prwatch.org/topics/international
[6] http://dev.prwatch.org/topics/public-relations
[7] http://dev.prwatch.org/topics/war-peace
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[9] http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Edelman
[10] http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1876250,00.html
[11] http://nationmultimedia.com/2007/01/25/headlines/headlines_30025038.php
[12] http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Barbour,_Griffith_and_Rogers
[13] http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:yDzujC_2VcsJ:pioneer.netserv.chula.ac.th/~ppasuk/thaksinslide.doc+%22Thaksin%E2%80%99s+Slide+Towards+Authoritarianism+%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1
[14] http://www.prweek.com/uk/news/article/627102/Edelman-takes-Thaksin-assignment/