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By Amy Sawitta Lefevre and Aubrey Belford BANGKOK/CHIANG MAI Thailand (Reuters) - On Dec. 27 last year, Thailand’s powerful army chief stood before a crowded news conference and stunned the beleaguered government of Yingluck Shinawatra by saying he would not rule out military intervention to resolve a deteriorating political crisis. General Prayuth Chan-Ocha said "the door was neither open nor closed" when he was asked whether a coup would happen. If that happened, the document says, the army would impose a state of emergency or impose martial law. There have now been 12 successful coups over the past eight decades of Thailand’s modern monarchy.More...