Thai junta appoints panel to draft new charter

<p><span class="focusParagraph">&nbsp;</span></p><p>Thailand's military government appointed a committee to draft a new constitution on Tuesday in a move seen aimed at preventing ousted former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra and his allies from returning to power.</p><p>Nearly six months after the army seized power, a 36-member committee headed by Bavornsak Uwanno, a law academic at the conservative King Prajadhipok Institute who is known to have military sympathies, began work on a new charter.<span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 20.3999996185303px;">&nbsp;</span></p>
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