2015 in Thailand

Incumbents

• King: Bhumibol Adulyadej
• Crown Prince: Vajiralongkorn
• Prime Minister: Prayut Chan-o-cha
• Supreme Patriarch:

  Events

January

• January 6 - Thai police arrest Gurmeet Singh convicted of involvement in a bombing in Chandigarh that killed 18 people in 1996, including Beant Singh who was then chief minister of Punjab.
• January 9 - Former Prime Minister of Thailand Yingluck Shinawatra appears to face impeachment charges over a failed rice subsidy scheme.
• January 23 - Thailand's military-appointed legislature votes to impeach former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra for her role in overseeing a government rice subsidy program that lost billions of dollars.

  February

March

April

• April 2 - Thailand's junta escalates their control from martial law to absolute power.

  May

• May 24 - 2015 Rohingya refugee crisis
• * Malaysian authorities find mass graves at the border to Thailand of the Rohingya refugees fleeing Burma.
• May 25 - 2015 Rohingya refugee crisis
• * Malaysia's discovery yesterday is said to have 139 graves with some of them having more than one body in.
• May 29 - 2015 Rohingya refugee crisis
• * Thailand will allow American authorities to identify boats that carry refugees from Burma and Bangladesh by using surveillance planes.

  June

• June 2 - 2015 Rohingya refugee crisis
• * A Thai general is suspended after the police order his arrest on suspected human trafficking.

  July

August

• August 17 - Bombing in Ratchaprasong, Bangkok, killing 19.

  September

• September 7 - A bolide over Bangkok and other locations flared up for several seconds in early morning.

  October

November

December

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