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Den gyllene triangeln är ett område i Sydostasien som består av svårtillgängliga bergstakter i östra Myanmar (Shanstaten och Kachinområdet), norra Thailand och nordvästra Laos. Området är svagt integrerat med sina respektive länder. Där bedrivs främst svedjebruk för egenförsörjning och odling av opium. Opiumhandeln är i huvudsak kontrollerad av gerillagrupper och den smugglas sedan vidare via Thailand i form av heroin.Gyllene triangelns betydelse som odlingsområde för opium blev uppenbar under 1960- och 1970- talen och området fick då namnet gyllene triangeln. Under mitten av 1990-talet var gyllene triangeln det ledande området för opiumodling i världen. Odlingsarealen var 160 000 hektar. Därefter minskade odlingen för att återigen börja öka 2005. 2013 bedömdes odlingsarealen ligga på 57 800 hektar med en skörd på 870 ton opium trots ansträngningar från myndigheternas sida att förstöra odlingsmark.

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Srettha Thavisin (Thai: เศรษฐา ทวีสิน, RTGS: Settha Thawisin, pronounced [sèːt.tʰǎː tʰā.wīː.sǐn]; born 15 February 1963), nicknamed Nid (Thai: นิด, RTGS: Nit, pronounced [nít]), is a Thai politician and real estate developer. He was the former chief executive and president of Sansiri Pcl.Educated in the United States, he co-founded Sansiri in 1988, which later became one of Thailand's largest real estate developers, leading Srettha to become a property tycoon. In 2022, he joined the Pheu Thai party and ran as one of its candidates for Prime Minister in the 2023 general elections, with the party coming in second behind the Move Forward Party. However, Move Forward and its candidate Pita Limjaroenrat failed to secure enough votes from parliament, Pheu Thai then became the leading party to nominate a candidate, forming a new coalition with more conservative parties. Srettha has been described numerous times by Pheu Thai, politicians and the media as the person most likely to be nominated by Pheu Thai, eventually declaring himself ready to become prime minister if chosen by the party on 19 July. He is expected to be nominated on 22 August when parliament comes to vote.He is a known confidant of both Thaksin Shinawatra and Yingluck Shinawatra, former prime ministers of Thailand, and was one of the three prime ministerial candidates of the Pheu Thai Party alongside Thaksin's youngest daughter, Paetongtarn Shinawatra, and former Attorney General Chaikasem Nitisiri in the 2023 Thai general election.

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The Pheu Thai Party (PTP; Thai: พรรคเพื่อไทย, lit. 'For Thais Party', RTGS: Phak Phuea Thai, pronounced [pʰák pʰɯ̂a tʰāj]) is a major Thai political party and is the third incarnation of a Thai political party founded by former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra. 
The Pheu Thai Party was founded on 20 September 2007, as an anticipated replacement for the People's Power Party (PPP), which the Constitutional Court of Thailand dissolved less than three months later after finding party members guilty of electoral fraud. The People's Power Party was itself a replacement for Thaksin's original Thai Rak Thai Party (TRT), dissolved by the Court in May 2007 for violation of electoral laws.As of July 2019, Pheu Thai had 22,771 members. The party is currently led by Chonlanan Srikaew, who has served as the Opposition Leader in the House of Representatives of Thailand since 23 December 2021. The party tends to be more popular in the north and east of the country. It won 141 seats in the 2023 Thai general election, making it the party with the second largest number of seats in the Thai House of Representatives.



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Thaksin Shinawatra (Thai: ทักษิณ ชินวัตร; RTGS: Thaksin Chinnawat; pronounced [tʰák.sǐn t͡ɕʰīn.nā.wát]; Chinese: 丘達新; Montenegrin: Taksin Šinavatra; born 26 July 1949) is a Thai businessman, politician and visiting professor. He served in the Thai Police from 1973 to 1987, and was the Prime Minister of Thailand from 2001 to 2006.
Thaksin founded the mobile phone operator Advanced Info Service and the IT and telecommunications conglomerate Shin Corporation in 1987, ultimately making him one of the richest people in Thailand. He founded the Thai Rak Thai Party (TRT) in 1998 and, after a landslide electoral victory, became prime minister in 2001. He was the first democratically elected prime minister of Thailand to serve a full term and was re-elected in 2005 by an overwhelming majority.
Thaksin declared a "war on drugs" in which more than 2,500 people were killed. Thaksin's government launched programs to reduce poverty, expand infrastructure, promote small and medium-sized enterprises, and extend universal healthcare coverage. Thaksin took a strong-arm approach against the separatist insurgency in the Muslim southern provinces.
His decision to sell shares in his corporation for more than a billion tax-free dollars generated controversy. A citizens' movement against Thaksin, called People's Alliance for Democracy or "Yellow Shirts", launched mass protests, accusing him of corruption, abuse of power, and autocratic tendencies. Thaksin called snap elections that were boycotted by the opposition and invalidated by the Constitutional Court.
Thaksin was overthrown in a military coup on 19 September 2006. His party was outlawed and he was barred from political activity. Thaksin has since lived in self-imposed exile except for a brief visit to Thailand in 2008. He was sentenced in absentia to two years in jail for abuse of power. From abroad, he has continued to influence Thai politics through the People's Power Party that ruled in 2008 and its successor organisation Pheu Thai Party, as well as the United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship or "Red Shirt" movement. His younger sister Yingluck Shinawatra was the prime minister of Thailand from 2011 to 2014.

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