Todays Nation reports that an “academic coalition calls on Thaksin to quit.” These are clearly academics with their finger on the pulse of public opinion and fashion:
Anti-Thaksin campaigner Sangsit Piriyarangsan urged government opponents around the country to put on yellow shirts on September 9 to coincide with an opposition rally in Bangkok. “Yellow is the colour of the anti-Thaksin campaign,” he said.
Well, judging from this shot in Nich Farrelly’s post last month, someone better tell the man himself!
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1 New Mandala » From the New Mandala archives // Nov 9, 2006 at 9:50 am
[...] Back in June - when a coup was almost unthinkable and when the afterglow of the royal celebrations was still fresh - I wrote my very first piece for New Mandala. It was published on 20 June 2006. I was in Bangkok and had been struck by the yellow shirts that had become a ubiquitous social and political statement at the time. [...]
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