On Sunday, 18 November 2012, about 40,000 Red Shirts from central Thailand gathered at a United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) stage in Bang Pla, Samut Prakan, close to Bangkok. With all the buzz over Obama’s visit and Pitak Siam’s looming rally, it appears to have escaped the attention of most media that this, together with the recent UDD rally in Udon Thani have been by the by far biggest Red Shirt gatherings in more than a year.
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Multiple red shirt rallies well away from Pitak Siam but numerically in total swamping PS’s projected 80000 would seem to be UDD’s best bet at this stage.
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i think the turn over seems much lower than 80000,
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Matichon had a picture of this rally on its front page, but estimated the number of participants at 20,000.
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Thanks a lot.
A friend told me that Thai Rath had a very small thing on it, without giving a crowd estimate at all, and i have not seen any mention in neither Bangkok Post nor The Nation other that Thaksin has phoned in.
As to the crowd estimate – i believe that 20 000 is too low.
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there will be much more in the next days…
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