The current situation has nothing to do with the 'Yellow Shirts'. The red shirts are trying to depose a democratically elected government, there are no yellow shirt demonstrations.
Every facist leader always throws some peanuts to the masses to get some support. At the same time the fix the political system, raid its coffers and engage in thousands of extra judicial killings.
Just like Peron, Taksin offers some superficial plans that are not financed and raids the treasury for personal gain. Without any new funding sources hyper inflation follows and the government's ability to function is diminished.
The 'yellow shirts' were not trying to put anyone into power but return to a constitutional form of government that could not be bought out.
Everyone familiar with the situation knows whats this is all about, Taksin is trying to get power so that he can wipe out the Baht 76 billion judgement against him.
He has been found guilty in a court of law and he is trying to get around it. His crimes are well known.
One thing that is pretty simple, put Chamlong Srimuang on one side of the equation and the other side is almost always wrong.
You are woefully uninformed on the reality of what is happening in Thailand if you try and establish any moral equivalency between Taksin and other politicians. The most ridiculous reference is to the 'north-south' conflict. Taksin escalated problems in the four most southern provinces and created a climate of violence and murder. Here is but one example of what happened under his administration:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Thailand_insurgencyIn October 2004 the town of Tak Bai in Narathiwat province saw the most publicized incident of the insurgency. Six local men were arrested for having supplied weapons to insurgents. A demonstration was organized to demand their release and the police called in army reinforcements. The army used tear gas and water cannons on the crowd, and shooting started in which seven men were killed.
Hundreds of local people, mostly young men, were arrested. They were made to take off their shirts and lie on the ground. Their hands were tied behind their backs.
Later that afternoon, they were thrown by soldiers into trucks to be taken to the Ingkayutthaboriharn army camp in the nearby province of Pattani. The prisoners were stacked five or six deep in the trucks, and by the time the trucks reached their destination five hours later, in the heat of the day, 78 men had suffocated to death.
This incident sparked widespread protests across the south, and indeed across Thailand, since many non-Muslim Thais were appalled at the army's behaviour. Thaksin, however, gave the army his full support. Those responsible for the ill-treatment and death of the detainees received the most minor of non-custodial punishments. Thaksin's initial response was to defend the army's actions, saying that the 78 men died "because they were already weak from fasting during the month of Ramadan."
Charges were filed against 58 suspects accused of participating in the demonstration. The trials went on at a slow place, and as of October 2006, the court had finished questioning of only two out of the 1,500 witnesses in the case. Police were also unable to find 32 Tak Bai protesters who were still at large after fleeing arrest.<39>
Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont gave a formal apology for the incident on 2 November 2006.<40> The day afterwards, the number of violent acts increased fivefold, compared to the average in the preceding month.<41>
Since Taksin's removal attitudes in the South have changed completely and they went from being the most unhappy to the happiest regional group in Thailand
So to sum up this has absolutely nothing to do with 'yellow shirts' but is a democratically elected government standing up to a political gangster who is desperate to get back B 76 billion baht that he stole from the government. They don't even hide the fact that the 'red shirts' are a rent a mob group that have no political agenda other than reinstalling the Prime Minister who on Friday publicly acknowledged that he would 'repay them all' when he got back to power.
By the way if you love Taksin then when you have some time you can help rehabilitate Gen Shwe in Burma because he is being disparaged by those pesky supporters of Aung San Suu Kyi and all of these different Asian groups are basically the same.