These two pictures stood out to me the most from the April 13 riots in Bkk
The first one is a soldier’s vigil, the second is woman protesting peacefully.
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What were they protesting? I feel kinda tossed in, I like the pictures but don’t really know what I’m looking at.
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Thai politics in brief :
They had a prime minister who won by a landslide in 2003
The military kicked him out in 2006 (This is when i just got to Bkk)
The military ruled until 2007
They dissolved the old PMs party
They wrote a new constitution
The old PMs party regrouped (red shirted folk?)
They had new elections
The old PMs party won (though the old PM is exiled. A puppet candidate)
The other major party was pissed, protesters protested for months and then shut down the airport
The new PM was on a cooking show and got kicked out
More elections
The yellowshirt/airport shutdown party won
The old PMs supporters (redshirts) are pissed
PICTURES: They shut down the ASEAN summit (Southeast Asian G-8), get violent, military steps in, reuters snaps pictures.
GENERALLY
Yellow shirts include: more educated rich military loyalists urban
Red Shirts: less educated police officers love Thaksin (old PM) rural