The best English language coverage of the PAD madness in Bangkok that I have seen is provided by Absolutely Bangkok. Bangkok Pundit has some useful links to other blog coverage. And Not the Nation is brilliant as usual. But the best comment I have seen so far is from our own regular contributor Srithanonchai:
At the moment, a veritable rebellion (what the constitution calls an attempt to seize power by unconstitutional means) is going on in Bangkok. If it was the military, one would call it [a] coup d’etat…
[UPDATE: Bangkok Pundit has regular updates here.]
3 responses so far ↓
1 matty // Aug 26, 2008 at 7:19 pm
The politics of Bangkok had truly descended to chaos and insanity. From the ‘bloodless coup led by a General Sondhi in Sept-2006′ to today’s ‘bloodless anarchy’ being led by Bangkok’s PiedPiper Sondhi Limthongkul.
Bloody fools!
2 jonfernquest // Aug 27, 2008 at 4:47 am
Man the ramparts!
It’s high time for an unsentimental education.
“Without their materialism and ‘instinctive worship of power’, almost the entire cast would be completely rootless.”
3 Lleij Samuel Schwartz // Aug 27, 2008 at 5:01 am
And thus the yellowshirts show themselves to be the neo-fascist/neo-corporatist* thugs that they are.
*especially in the Falangist sense
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