Bangkok Crisis

PAD is really gone too far this time. Although it has been reported that PAD supporters are mainly Bangkok residents, none of the residents (elites and non-elites) whom I had spoken to over the past few days support PAD. Instead, they are firm supporters of Mr Thaksin who brought universal healthcare to the rural. The poor of Thailand are really living in misery compared to the rich. People seemed to have forgotten that Mr Thaksin was the only PM that had the will power to bring about reform and brought to completion an airport that was never completed by many many PM before him. He brought the economy up and the thais were generally better off.

PAD intends to roll 'Thailand backwards into the dark ages', dismantaling years of democracy progression. In my opinion, PAD has polarised the Thai population so much that a national reconciliation seems so difficult now.