The 'Red Guard' cometh

Published: 27/08/2011 at 02:20 AM
Newspaper section: News

Six months ago, if you'd asked someone who the movement known colloquially as the red shirts are, a good number of people in the country as well as much of the international community would have answered that they are a revolutionary faction fighting for equality in Thailand. Others may have said they are the terrorist arm of the Pheu Thai Party.

These two men tried to lay a wreath in protest at the gates of Parliament, but were thwarted and roughly led away by red shirt supporters of the government.

But I'm not here to play that game. Besides, now is not six months ago.

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lek
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Discussion 4 : 27/08/2011 at 11:16 PM4
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The tactic of political parties using anonymous supporters to suppress freedoms of speech and assembly are well known throughout history: Hitler and his Blackshirts, Chairman Mao and his Red Brigade, Pol Pot and the Khymer Rouge, etc.
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Discussion 3 : 27/08/2011 at 06:43 PM3
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I wish good luck to the redshirt who puts his mans on me .
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Discussion 2 : 27/08/2011 at 06:32 PM2
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Some red shirts leaders got away with (allegedly) burning down Bangkok and are now MPs. The police never even tried to arrest many of these thugs. With their leader being the de facto Thai PM they think they can get away with anything – and probably they can.
Till now we had TiT for "This is Thailand". Maybe we should use in the future DiT like "Democrazy in Thailand" ...
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Discussion 1 : 27/08/2011 at 06:31 PM1
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Looking at the pictures of the glorious, heroic red thug guards it seems they are not really there as a result of the coup, as many red fans would like to make us believe. I think these guys were not in Bangkok at that time, probably in jail or doing nothing but waiting to make some money without working. Please deliver us from these thugs in BKK and let them run havoc in the red villages....
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