Chavalit Yongchaiyudh
Chavalit Yongchaiyudh ( Thai: ชวลิต ยง ใจ ยุทธ, RTGS: Chawalit Yongchaiyut, pronunciation: [ ʨ ʰ áwálít joŋʨajjút ]; born May 15, 1932 in Nonthaburi ) is a Thai politician, General and former Prime Minister of Thailand. The residents of southern Thailand, he is also known as "Big Jiew ".
Education and military career
Chavalit received his education at the Triam Suksa Udorn School ( a preparatory school for university studies ) and made in 1949 graduated from the Chulachomklao Military Academy. Then he went to the U.S. Army at the Communication School, Fort Bournemouth. Later he was in the 9th Army Regiment on Okinawa ( Ryukyu, Japan) trained on. He then attended the Thai Army Communication School and the General Staff College in Thailand.
He served since 1954, first in the Thai army as a lieutenant in 1963 and used as a platoon leader of the maintenance team of the army. 1971 Chavalit was appointed Chief of Army Operations Division and 1985 General of the Army Operations Department.
In 1986 he was promoted to Chief of Staff of the Army and was in the same year the Supreme Commander of the Army, one year later chief of the Supreme Staff of the Armed Forces. He developed the amnesty program, which led to the state at the end of the armed struggle of the Communist Party of Thailand. Under his leadership, the army pressed ahead with regional development projects: Isan Khiew ( "Green Isan ") in the backward northern and Khwamwang Soon ( " New Hope " ) in the conflict- ridden southern provinces. He continued to work with large companies, which he gave lucrative government contracts. This cooperation is also the intense relationship between Chavalit and Charoen Pokphand Group of leaves (CP ) lead back, an influential agricultural and conglomerate, which is led by Dhanin Chearavanont.
Chavalit is Buddhist, but he is married to a Muslim from Indonesia and was therefore long been associated with the Wahdah lobby founded by Wan Noor.
Political activity
Chavalit began his political career as deputy prime minister and defense minister in 1988 during the government of General Chatichai Choonhavan. In 1990 he founded the party New Hope, which he wanted to expand to a dominant party state modeled after Suharto's Golkar party in Indonesia. He could count on the support of his close-knit Charoen Pokphand Group. Chavalit took the contacts from his time as army chief and head of the development program "Green Isan " to recruit local officials in the Northeast, former military officers and civil servants for the party. Between 1992 and 1994 he was Minister of the Interior under Chuan Leekpai, between 1995 and 1996 re- Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense in the cabinet of Banharn Silpa - archa.
On November 17, 1996 New Hope Chavalit party won the national elections. Chavalit formed a coalition of six parties and was on 25 November 1996 by King Bhumibol Adulyadej (Rama IX ). Appointed Prime Minister. On 6 November 1997 he was forced to resign under pressure from many forces, among other things because of the desolate economic situation of the country after the financial crisis in Asia. Then his party lost massively in popularity and the support of the CP group, the Thaksin Shinawatra and his new Thai Rak Thai Party turned to (TRT ). 2001 Chavalit came over with the majority of his party for TRT.
From 2001 to 2005 Chavalit was in the government of Thaksin Shinawatra Minister of Interior and Deputy Prime Minister. As the person responsible for internal security, he ordered on 28 April 2004, suspected Islamic rebels, who had entrenched themselves in the Krue Se mosque in Pattani, to move through negotiations to the task. The commanding site General Pallop Pinmanee was accordingly against the mosque attack, all 32 anti-government protesters were killed. Subsequently, the conflict escalated in southern Thailand. Chavalit then ran the dislocation of General Pallop. In September 2008, Chavalit was appointed as deputy prime minister in the Somchai government Wongsawats, but resigned a few weeks later after serious rioting during protests against the Thai government in Bangkok from his post.
After the 2006 coup and overthrow of Thaksin's Thai Rak Thai whose party had been broken apart (TRT ) and as well as its successor party prohibited. After he refused to work in the Muslim, but the Putschistenführer Sonthi Boonyaratglin related Matubhum Party, Chavalit resigned in October 2009, the Pheu Thai Party, another TRT 's successor party, at.