Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Red Tide rises again


Last weekend Bangkok saw its first demenstration since the bloody clashes between the army and the red shirts.

This time the red shirts were out in force to commemorate the 4th anniversary of the military coup. The coup was a peaceful affair which succeeded in ousting Thaksin Shinawatra from power and eventually installing a military controlled Democratic party.

The troubles in may were basically organised by Thaksin through proxy's and sadly ended in over 90 people being shot dead and hundreds wounded.

All all fairness, sundays demonstration was a peaceful affair, more like a carnival than a demo. The Police were on hand, but weren't needed.

Maybe if the demo's in May had gone off this peacfully, then maybe we might be at a different happy place now in Thailand.

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