Word: reds
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...were a popsicle, what flavor would you be? Popsicle Supersicle Firecracker Red, White & Blue...
...Red Shirts, who draw much of their support from the rural heartland and tend to still pledge allegiance to Thaksin, are occupying the streets around Bangkok's Government House calling for Abhisit's ouster. Roads normally clogged with traffic are eerily empty, with commandeered public buses and rows of smoldering tires serving as impromptu demarcations of Red Shirt territory. Over the weekend, red-hued crowds managed to deluge an Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit held at a beach resort near Bangkok, forcing some world leaders to evacuate the premises by helicopter. The conference was hastily canceled. "Even...
...Thailand's economic woes, as foreign countries issue travel warnings that could dissuade badly needed tourists in an industry that employs more than 3 million people. On April 12, Abhisit declared a state of emergency in Bangkok, the same day the Prime Minister's motorcade was attacked by a red-hued mob wielding sticks and bars. Earlier in the day, one Red Shirt leader, Jatuporn Prompan, had called on his fellow protesters to attack Abhisit in order to hasten the government's ouster. That evening, Thaksin - who is in self-imposed exile presumably because of a two-year conflict...
...Monday, at the Red Shirts' makeshift headquarters in the shadow of Bangkok's neo-Italianate Government House, protest leader Jatuporn vowed to continue his crusade until Abhisit leaves office. "Once the army kills the Red Shirts, then the Red Shirts will rise up and fight," he told TIME as a group of protesters with badges that read "Red Guards" nodded in agreement. "It's not my plan to make violence like this, but our people will stand up and fight...
...Back at Red Shirt central, a pair of Buddhist monks calmly ate rice and curry, as angry protesters milled around them, brandishing photographs they said proved that soldiers had fired directly at the Red Shirts. "I came not to protest but to cheer up people who are fighting for justice," said Pramaha Chartree, from the Sotorn temple. Last summer, at nearly the same place, other monks said almost the same thing - but in support of the Yellow Shirt crowds who had camped out in front of Government House. When even monks find their loyalties divided, there promises...