The Criminal Court will on Aug 28 announce whether it will hear the army’s defamation lawsuit against fugitive former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra in which he claimed during a media interview that the Privy Council supported the coup that ousted his sister Yingluck Shinawatra’s government on May 22 last year.
The court began its initial examination of the case on Monday, before deciding whether to accept the lawsuit for further proceedings.
According to the indictment Thaksin also accused the military of being part of the plot to overthrow the Yingluck administration, and said that soldiers seemed to like Myanmar-style democracy.
He made the comments when he attended the 6th Asian Leadership Conference in Seoul on May 19-22, in an interview with the event organiser, Chosun Ilbo newspaper.