The most well-known of these instances was the 2013 Amnesty Bill proposed by the Pheu Thai government of Yingluck Shinawatra. According to Pheu Thai insiders very close to Thaksin, he genuinely thought he had the green light to come home, only later to realize that it was used by old regime elites to trigger mass royalist "Yellow Shirt" protests in Bangkok that culminated in the 2014 coup d'état that removed Yingluck Shinawatra, Thaksin's sister, and his political proxy. As recently as June 2021, in an online discussion, Thaksin vowed to his supporters not only to return to Thailand but to come through "the front door of [Bangkok's] Suvarnabhumi Airport."