For weeks, Yaowapa Wongsawat - a sister of former premier Thaksin Shinawatra - tried to lie low as protesters in Bangkok hurled abuse at the clan, for allegedly monopolising Thai politics and defrauding the country. Until the House of Representatives was dissolved on December 9, the younger sister of Thaksin was a legislator from Chiang Mai, the stronghold of Puea Thai party. She was also said to be the "back-up prime minister" to caretaker Premier Yingluck Shinawatra, whom critics say serves as Thaksin's proxy. But approached by