"...............the protests by various groups of people"

A very short, but heavily laden agenda statement from one of the State Media newspaper articles above.

Referencing "various groups" is an attempt to try to bring the huge Red Shirt Democracy Movement rallies of tens-of-thousands down to the same level as the paltry protests that the elite are able to field.

Another blatant agenda is when the State Media calls a rally of tens-of-thousands a "group".

But most of you know this already.

As an aside.........interesting being at a funeral yesterday where 2/3 of attendees were in red, 1/3 in black. One is accustomed to only seeing black at Thai funerals.