I have been watching the news regarding Bangkok, and thought I might give you a general round up of the situation.
There are 2 main groups... The Red Shirts and Yellow Shirts.
Red shirts consist of mainly poor people, Yellow being the middle and upper class.
The red shirts are not happy with the current government and are protesting against it. This is now being met with increased force to contain, and reading BBC reports this morning of at least 18 dead and 800 hurt, it seems to be getting to a explosive peak.
The yellow shirts are the opposite, their protests in 2006, and 2008 brought a new coalition goverment to power, and to date they are happy.
There seems to be no real solution to this problem in Thailand because you have 2 completely opposite point of views.... I hope that they managed to come to some agreement peacefully...
I have no opinion of the situation, as I am a guest in the country and cannot understand fully the position of both sides..
SD
1 comment:
We are the same, we are not happy with our goverment but we don't kill people. hope it settles down soon.
Stay safe xxxxxxxxxxxx
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