Coup in Thailand

via USA Today.

Thai military stages a coup while their govenment's prime minister is in the US to address the UN. The PM is has been under suspicion for some time of fraud and corruption. The military has declared a provisional ruing body loyal to the Thai king.

" Thailand's army commmander ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra in a military coup Tuesday night while he was in New York, circling his offices with tanks, declaring martial law and revoking the constitution."

Massive rallies against Thaksin last April resulted in new elections, but were boycotted by opposition parties, and have left the country without a functioning government, as the top Thai court nullified the election. Opposition against the PM intensified after his family sold its controlling interest in a telecommunications company to a state-owned Singapore firm. There is also a long-running Muslim insurgency continuing to brew in the southern part of the country.