Sunthorn Kongsompong

Sunthorn Kongsompong
▪ 2000

      Thai general who was supreme commander of the armed forces that overthrew Prime Minister Gen. Chatichai Choonhaven's allegedly corrupt government in a 1991 bloodless military coup and who was titular head of the National Peacekeeping Council that governed Thailand until 1992, when intervention by the king on behalf of pro-democracy demonstrators led to the junta's resignation and the election of a civilian government (b. 1931?—d. Aug. 2, 1999, Bangkok, Thai.).

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