Word: roopkachorn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other officers and seven labor leaders. They also reportedly put out a warrant for the arrest of a tank commander said to be responsible for the deaths of NBC Cameraman Neil Davis and his sound technician William Latch during the coup. Another seven soldiers and cashiered Colonel Manoon Roopkachorn, who is believed to have masterminded the aborted rebellion, are still at large. Prem instructed a team of police investigators to work "day and night" to bring the culprits to justice...
...week's end some of the plotters still had not been identified. Thai military officials were certain, however, that one of the ringleaders was a former army colonel, Manoon Roopkachorn, leader of the so-called young Turks who mounted the 1981 effort to oust Prem. Although coup instigators are often treated leniently, the Prime Minister indicated that things would be different this time. At a press conference in Bangkok, the government announced the appointment of a three-member panel of police officers to conduct an investigation of the abortive coup. Still, there was reason to wonder how tough the Thai...
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