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Also known as Prayuth Chan-ocha, Too, Prayut Jan-o-cha, Gen. Prayuth Chanocha, General Prayut Chan-o-cha

Prime Minister of Thailand from 2014 to 2023

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Prayut Chan-o-cha is a Thai politician, military officer, songwriter, and dictator. Born on March 21, 1954, in Mueang Nakhon Ratchasima, he is a citizen of Thailand and speaks the Thai language. He served as the Prime Minister of Thailand and held the rank of general in the Royal Thai Army. His political affiliations include the United Thai Nation Party and the Palang Pracharath Party.

Chan-o-cha received his education at the Chulachomklao Royal Military Academy and the Armed Forces Academies Preparatory School. He participated in the Vietnamese border raids in Thailand and was awarded the Order of Rama. He also participated in APEC Thailand 2022. As an author, he is credited with the work "Kongthap Thai kap phai kukkhām rūpbǣp mai =".

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Prayut Chan-o-cha (Thai: ประยุทธ์ จันทร์โอชา, pronounced [prā.jút tɕān.ʔōː.tɕʰāː] ; born 21 March 1954) is a Thai former politician and military officer who became the 29th prime minister of Thailand after seizing power in the 2014 coup d'état and served until 2023. He was concurrently the minister of defence in his own government from 2019 to 2023. Prayut served as commander-in-chief of the Royal Thai Army from 2010 to 2014 and led the coup d'état which installed the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO), the military junta which governed Thailand between 22 May 2014 and 10 July 2019.

After his appointment as army chief in 2010, Prayut was characterised as a royalist and an opponent of former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra. Considered a hardliner within the military, he was one of the leading proponents of military crackdowns on the Red Shirt demonstrations of April 2009 and April–May 2010. He later sought to moderate his profile, talking to relatives of protesters who were killed in the bloody conflict and cooperating with the government of Yingluck Shinawatra, who won parliamentary elections in July 2011.

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