Sondhi Limthongkul is a lucky man indeed. The controversial media magnate, ally turned nemesis of Thaksin Shinawatra, and founder of the misnamed People’s Alliance for Democracy was apparently left standing after gunmen riddled his van with bullets on 17 April 2009.
At about 5.40am on that day gunmen pulled up beside Sondhi’s van on Samsen Road [...]
The Sondhi Limthongkul assassination effort
May 4th, 2009 by David Fullbrook, Guest Contributor · 17 Comments
Tags: Thailand
Red faces: Unconvincing psych-ops
May 4th, 2009 by Jim Taylor, Guest Contributor · 78 Comments
One 1 May 2009 the increasingly powerful propaganda military wing, in the pocket of the elites and Democrat Party, the Internal Security Operations Command (ISOC) (กอ.รมน.) made an unconvincing attempt to show the people of the north how justified the army was in brutalising the Red Shirts last month.
A conference was held at Chiang Mai [...]
Tags: Abhisit · PAD · Thailand · UDD
Chang Noi on the “grey politics of survival”
May 4th, 2009 by Nicholas Farrelly · 22 Comments
Consider the past week: An ambitious general. An unsavoury, opportunistic political clique. An official mob recruited by the Interior Ministry. A billionaire concession-hunter. Coup rumours. Media controls. Fear-mongering. Intrigue. The desperate grey politics of survival.
- Extracted from Chang Noi, “Red and yellow and shades of grey”, The Nation, 4 May 2009.