“Thailand’s Constitutional Court on Friday removed Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra citing serious ethical breaches related to a phone call this summer with the former strongman of neighboring Cambodia,” the New York Times reports.
“The court had already suspended Paetongtarn last month after a group of senators lodged a complaint with the court over her conversation with Hun Sen, Cambodia’s longtime leader and the father of the country’s former prime minister. During that call to discuss an escalating border dispute between the two countries, Paetongtarn appeared submissive, referring to Hun Sen as ‘uncle’ and to Thailand’s powerful military as the ‘opposing side.’”
“Hun Sen later released a recording of the call, setting off a political crisis in Thailand just as the border dispute turned into a full-blown military confrontation.”
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