A senior party source told AFP "she is definitely no longer here, she is likely in Singapore now." Thai junta chief Prayut Chan-O-Cha denied knowledge of her whereabouts but ordered border checkpoints "to be stepped up," while his number-two Prawit Wongsuwon said it was "possible" Yingluck had fled through neighbouring Cambodia. Requesting anonymity, the senior source in the Shinawatras' Pheu Thai party told AFP that she left Thailand on Wednesday, adding "it's impossible she left without the military green light." "It is the end of the Shinawatras and the Pheu Thai party in politics," Puangthong Pawakpan, a Thai politics expert at Bangkok's Chulalongkorn University. Billionaires and generalsTo many supporters Yingluck had finally emerged from her elder brother's shadow, drawing on a star quality throughout her 18-month trial that is absent among the gloomy cast of ageing generals who rule Thailand.

Source: The Nation Bangkok August 25, 2017 10:07 UTC