 Pallop also participated in the 1977 coup against the ultra-conservative government of Tanin Kraivixien.During the Prem government, the Young Turks tried to seize power on 1 April 1981.When it became clear that the royal family continued to support Prem, the coup failed; although Pallop fled to the Lao People's Democratic Republic to escape punishment, he was jailed for two months by the Laotian government.