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...leaders ended the protesters' three-week occupation of central Bangkok, which left at least two dead and more than 100 injured. On a mission to secure the area less than an hour after the Red Shirts had decamped, the commander of the élite 11th Infantry Regiment of the Royal Guards walked over to a pile of picture frames cast aside in a corner of the makeshift room. Picking up one photograph, he gazed at the image of Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej, dapper in a pink blazer and pink shirt...
...first day of the week and is represented by the golden hue. As the country has cycled through a seemingly endless parade of coups and governments, one constant has remained: each new leader has pledged allegiance to the King - and, presumably with it, the vast apparatus that supports the royal family...
...Thaksin and his Red Shirt cohorts have been at pains to underline that they don't think the King himself had anything to do with the putsch that overthrew one of Thailand's most popular - but also most divisive - Prime Ministers. Yet any implication of political maneuvering within the royal circle is incendiary in a nation where many practically deify the throne. One of Thaksin's lieutenants has already been charged with lèse-majesté, punishable in Thailand by up to 15 years in jail. The ruling Democrat Party has vowed to root out antimonarchy material...
...protest movement.) Indeed, the Yellow Shirts' very choice of sartorial color was a not-so-subtle reminder of their loyalty to the monarch. The King has never publicly weighed in on the Yellow Shirt/Red Shirt divide. Nor has he made any statement in support of the Yellow Shirts. But royal watchers noted that his wife, Queen Sirikit, attended the cremation ceremony of a Yellow Shirt protester who died in political violence last year. (See pictures of last year's protests...
...Adams House Masters being carried into the room like Prince Ali (and Jasmine) by half-naked Adams boys. Kudos to the Masters for their royal good nature...