NOW THE WORLD IS WATCHING THAILAND
Both BBC and CNN were carrying stories this morning about the expected "red shirt" protests planned for Bangkok today. Anywhere up to 300,000 supporters of the former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra are expected to attend and demand current PM Abhisit Vejjajiva resigns from office.
Various media have dubbed today as "Judgement Day" or "D-Day", and I think Thailand does have some important decisions to make. Whether today will be the day remains to be seen.
For sure there is far more traffic on the roads this morning. My taxi driver did a U-turn after we didn't move for more than 10 minutes on what is always a pretty clear road. Police on motorcycles were also much in evidence - far more so than during the "yellow" protests of last year. Ominous perhaps, but just my observations.
4 comments:
Yellow shirts got away with disrupting tourism - Red shirts, I predict, will not get the same leniency.
I think you are right Norman, but what damage will be done to Thailand's already battered image in the process?
Watch what happens in Moldova for comparison sake. It should be an interesting next couple of weeks.
It is indeed so sad. I mean I noticed the extra police presence today too around town. Sad that the police is under such political control here. That yellow shirts got away with everything when red shirts are put against big police forces. Double standards. Oh well...what else to expect from third world puppet country.
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