| The situation was made worse by incidents involving violent protests by the red shirts in Pattaya and in Bangkok in April. So he doesn’t think that the illegal coup and the action of the ultra right wing, yellow shirts in seizing the airports had anything to do with Thailand’s declining image in the world. Maybe that’s because it was these actions and these factions, and not the votes of the people, that eventually brought him to power and upon which his shaky coalition still depends. |