sentences:  Immediately after the coup, Washington had halted all military co-operation with, and aid to, the junta.US law forbade assistance to governments of a country where an elected leader has been deposed in a coup.In early-May 2007, activists from the Assembly of Isaan People met with junta chief Sonthi Boonyaratglin in order to appeal for him to remove Surayud Chulanont.