However, this may just be the calm before the stormy waves hit: the vast majority of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra are rural poor. They have to overcome many obstacles on the way and may not arrive on the day of the demonstration. The red shirts said: Take a day off on Saturday and see you on Sunday. It is expected that the "Red Sea" will be inevitable.
Not only that, Bangkok is vast, and people are worried about political rumors. It was rumoured that the Red Shirts used trucks to transport a large number of smelly salted fish and dung eggs from the countryside, and prepared them as "secret weapons" against the police and opponents. It is even said that someone "slammed" the Prime Minister's Office with salted fish; Some people seriously discourage friends and colleagues from taking taxis, saying that the Red Shirts will kidnap passengers as a bargaining chip to prevent the police from detaining demonstrators ... In the chaos, many citizens rushed to hoard water and food to cope with possible "long-term difficulties", including the United Nations agencies in Bangkok. Many enterprises have also begun to shorten office hours and even take holidays to avoid being affected by the situation.
The government and relevant departments are naturally more nervous. It goes without saying that 50,000 military and police officers have been put in place to prevent death. The health department recently announced that it has prepared enough plasma and oxygen for emergency treatment; The Ministry of Education announced that the entrance examination for junior and senior high schools would be postponed indefinitely; The State Council, the police chief, has packed and transported the documents in batches, and even the Prime Minister is ready to move them to the emergency site. On the other hand, Thaksin Shinawatra, the "backstage boss" of the Red Shirt Army, called on his supporters to fight for the democracy of the next generation, while calling his three children abroad in advance on the grounds of "business activities", while the radicals in the Red Shirt Army have shouted the slogan "Let the government step down within three days".
It's not easy to "go under the sun for three days", but the red shirts did it through street protests, and so did the pro-government yellow shirts. Red shirts have a far-reaching influence in rural areas, with a large number of people; Although the number of yellow shirts is much smaller, it is deeply rooted in the capital Bangkok, occupying the "home advantage" of the demonstration. You can call immediately, you can stay at will, and both factions are good at games. The political situation in Thailand is like a mill, sometimes "red in red" and sometimes "yellow in yellow".
However, the biggest victims of this political struggle are Thailand and the Thai people themselves.
Because the government is always in turmoil, no matter whether pro-Thaksin or anti-Thaksin forces form a cabinet, they can not be in power for a long time, and it is difficult to formulate long-term and effective national development plans, which has seriously affected Thailand's economic recovery and sustainable development. Due to the unstable political situation and frequent political violence, international investors' confidence in Thailand's investment environment has rapidly lost. According to friends in the local media circle, at least 33 countries have issued travel warnings to remind their citizens not to travel to Thailand in the near future. The tour group from Hong Kong to Bangkok has been cancelled urgently. With the deepening of the "encirclement and suppression campaign", it is believed that such incidents will continue to emerge one after another, which will continue to hit consumer confidence and Thailand's economic potential.
The key lies in the fact that the red and yellow factions not only distrust each other, but also are evenly matched, failing to reach an understanding of mediation and arbitration. In the former, the "yellow faction" does not believe in international mediation and thinks it is partial to Thaksin; The "red faction" does not believe in Thailand's two traditional mediation forces-the royal family and the military, and thinks it is partial to the "yellow faction". The latter, the "red faction" does not believe in justice, and this siege is to protest the court's decision to deprive Thaksin of half of his assets; The "yellow faction" doesn't believe in votes, and thinks that Thaksin's "despicable means" will win no matter how he chooses. Even if Thaksin's party is forcibly dissolved, he will conjure up a new party within a few days.
This deadlock is actually the real "besieged city" in Bangkok: with this besieged city, the current government will be a lame government even if it has escaped the disaster; Under this heavy siege, even if the red shirts really subvert the current government, they can't escape the fate of "ten days of Beijing omen."
Perhaps seeking knowledge and compromise is the only way to break the siege of Bangkok, but it is not easy for the red shirts and yellow shirts to take this step, because it takes more wisdom and courage to get in touch with political opponents than to take to the streets to demonstrate.
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