Red Shirts

In December anti-government protestors - sua luang (yellow shirts) occupied both Bangkok’s international and domestic airports, demanding that the prime minister step down from power.

Now the opposition party previously in power – sua deng (red shirts) are gathering in mass protests in Bangkok, red-shirt taxi drivers blocking the streets and masses of people overtaking democracy monument.

X-Prime Minister Thaksin, who faces serious prison time in the Thai kingdom of he ever returns for corruption while he was in power (he fled the trial for which he was convicted guilty) is supposedly encouraging the protestors through videos from undisclosed locations.

The situation seems to get more chaotic and violent by the day.

Most of the action is in Bangkok; but today I saw a red-shirt, grey mask concealing his face all except eyes and mouth, bombing down Rajadamnern on a motorcycle like a kamikaze, the Thai national flag waving wildly on the back of his bike.

Most Thai people I talk to (from various provinces of the Kingdom) identify with neither red nor yellow shirts - not wanting to take sides in the conflict, just hoping to see some semblance of peace and unity in the country’s government.