 Sonthi and other senior junta leaders flew to Chiang Mai on a Air Force C-130 on 3 November 2006 to visit a prominent fortune-teller and perform a religious ceremony to ward off bad luck over their staging of the Sept 19 coup.Junta leaders appointed themselves to the Boards of Directors of several state enterprises.The junta censored the media and the internet, enforced martial law, and established a 14,000-strong military unit to control public protests.