More from Crispin: Security analysts are now weighing Thaksins potential ability to mount an insurgent response through the mobilization and transformation of the UDD into a fighting force if and when Yingluck is bumped from power. Civil war scenarios splitting the country between the pro-Thaksin north and northeast and the pro-Democrat south and national capital floated by certain Thai academics and perpetuated by the foreign media, however, seem overwrought in light of recent half-hearted UDD mobilizations. UDD pro-election rallies organized in Thaksins and Yinglucks geographical strongholds failed to galvanize large numbers, a languor some analysts attribute to disenchantment with Thaksins bid for amnesty that would have absolved top soldiers and Democrat Party leaders involved in the killing of scores of UDD protesters in 2010. Many of the UDD offshoots Thaksin nourished during the fight against the Democrats were allowed to wither after Yinglucks election win and as part of their terms of engagement with the royal establishment.
Posted on: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 07:17:59 +0000
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