1. King Rama 9 – Yingluck’s property – April 2010 Casey Protest

2. King Rama 9  Thailand was at peace:  Experimenting with agriculture and irrigation  Understand culture  Projects that benefit people  Respected

3. Thaksin Shinawatra  Elder brother of Yingluck  Helped Thailand recovered from the 1997 Asian financial crisis  Did not give out sufficient progress  Improved his family’s business with the help of policy  Accused of nepotism  Lived in exile

4. Yingluck Shinawatra  A former businesswoman  Became a prime minister after her brother was found guilty  No progress as prime minister  Implemented policies to allow her brother return to Thailand  Known as a “puppet” of her brother

5. Consequences: April 2010  Two perspectives: Support Yingluck and want her to discharge (Yellow and Red Shirts)  Demonstration  Thai troops fired teargas at protesters  Protesters fought back with guns, grenades  At least 23 people died and over a hundred got injured  Bangkok’s worst protest in 18 years

6. Red Shirts  United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship  From rural north and north east  Benefited by the policies that Thaksin formed (education and economy)  They wanted Thaksin back  Wanted Abhisit Vejjajiva to resign  He became the prime minister without having election

7. Yellow Shirts (Anti-Thaksin)  Peoples’ Alliance for Democracy  Royalists, Businessman, Urban and Middle Class  Led by Sondhi Limthongkul and Chamlong Srimuang  “Thaksin’s rehabilitation and return from exile is still deemed as non-negotiable at the highest royalist levels.”

8. Effects  Economics dropped  Less tourists  Shops were not open to business  Red shirts also forced the shops to close

9. Solutions  Abhisit Vejjajiva ordered the military police to arrest red shirts  The protest ended on May 2010  He was still the prime minister in Thailand until 2011

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