In Part 1, we looked at the enterprising Nalinee Taveesin, PM’s new “Office Minister” whose main qualification for her new job appears to be an ability to do brisk business with the wretched African dictator Robert Mugabe. Now, onto Natthawut Saikua, the core red-shirt leader assigned to be the new Deputy Minister for Agriculture. [...]
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Yingluck’s New Line-up, Part 2: Deputy Minister for Scorched Earth
Posted: 31st January 2012 by bangkokdave in 2012Tags: arson, Bangkok, black shirts, human rights, Human Rights Watch, insurrection, Jatuporn Prompan, Nalinee Taveesin, Natthawut Saikua, Pheu Thai, PT, red shirt protest, red shirts, Robert Mugabe, Thai democracy, Thai government, Thai politics, Thai trade, Thaksin, Thaksin Shinawatra, UDD, Weng Tojirakarn, Yingluck Shinawatra
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Yingluck’s New Line-up, Part 1: Office Minister for Blood Diamonds
Posted: 30th January 2012 by bangkokdave in 2012Tags: arson, Bangkok, blood diamonds, human rights, Nalinee, Nalinee Taveesin, Natthawut Saikua, Pheu Thai, PT, red shirt protest, red shirts, Robert Mugabe, Thai democracy, Thai government, Thai politics, Thai trade, Thailand, Thaksin, Thaksin Shinawatra, UDD, Yingluck Shinawatra
Did blood diamonds help to pay for the 2010 red shirt rallies, other UDD and Pheu Thai activities – and even the party’s 2011 election campaign?
Red Villages: Tyranny of the Majority in the “Land of the Free”
Posted: 15th January 2012 by bangkokdave in 2012Tags: communism, fascism, Jatuporn, Jatuporn Prompan, Natthawut Saikua, Pheu Thai, PT, red shirt protest, red shirts, Red Village, Red Villages, Thai democracy, Thai government, Thai politics, Thailand, Thaksin, Thaksin Shinawatra, Thida Thawornseth, totalitarianism, UDD, Weng Tojirakarn, Yingluck Shinawatra
Thailand’s “Red Villages” have been making news over the past year. First organized by local UDD affiliates around Udon Thani and Khon Kaen provinces, they have been sprouting throughout northeastern and centralThailand like little red mushrooms since red-shirt friendly Pheu Thai came to power in August 2011. In order to become “red,” a village [...]
