The foreign embassies in Bangkok have already started to warn people to not come to Bangkok during the end of February. On the 26 of February the court will decide what to do with the 47 billion THB the Thai government have impounded from the former PM of Thailand.
The red shirts have off course plans for this weekend with big rallies and maybe even an airport occupation who knows? When the Thai police failed to arrest the yellow shirts and bring them to justice within reasonable time they just send a signal to others to do the same.
It is all about politics but now the new government fair politic fails, poor people in Thailand always get arrested for petty crime but powerful people that bring the country to a stand still gets away with it and can even form a new party.
The Thai police should have arrested and prosecuted the core leaders for the Yellow shirts a long time ago (yeah we wish) and by that sending a strong signal to everybody that demonstrations are ok but keep it legal. Now everybody is doing what the please and the police have no real power but they have to call for the army every time something happens and do the Thai people really want to see the army on the streets?
Now some Thai media have blown up the conflict several times to gain either side of this conflicts but this time it’s not a false alarm the embassies do not get their info from newspapers but from other sources.
People are warned to not visit Bangkok during this time but on the other hand last year when the riots and gun shots were blazing down town people celebrated the water festival in other parts of Bangkok.
Mindstream
Last time in April it was not really on the legal side was it? Also the Yellow shirts parking in the airport was not totally legal as well.
Grant
“Demonstrations are okay, but keep it legal” Well of course that’s okay its a freedom of speech, all Thais have the right to demonstrate against what they feel is wrong so long as violence does not come into play.