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Bangkok Post
US magazine Foreign Policy has listed former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra among a group of "Bad Exes" - former government leaders known internationally for scandals ranging from policy blunders to corruption.
Thaksin has been placed in the same league as former German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, former Spanish prime minister Jose Maria Aznar, Nigeria's ex-president Olusegun Obasanjo and former Philippine leader Joseph Estrada.
"Most ex-presidents and former prime ministers devote their lives to making a positive difference in the world, or at least fade away into obscurity. Here are five former leaders who have done neither," wrote Joshua EKeating, the author of the piece, which is on the magazine's website.
"Since being deposed in a 2006 coup amid allegations of graft and human rights abuses, Thaksin has lived a peripatetic existence. The former billionaire businessman has served as a 'special ambassador' for Nicaragua and an economic adviser in Cambodia, and was briefly owner of the Manchester City soccer club.
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