Originally Posted by
jimnbkk
In the Washington Post this morning was a very short story about the Queen attending the funeral of a PAD supporter killed in the 'unpleasantness' last week. The story speculated that this was tacit approval by the King of the PAD. Can this be true?
So some news reports, such as ABC, have said:
Thailand's revered Queen Sirikit will attend the funeral on Monday of an anti-government protester killed in clashes with police a week ago, the protest group said, the strongest sign yet of royal backing for the street movement.
The IHT article and the views in it are echoed by a number of Thai friends of mine, some of whom had previously voted for the Democrats as they did not like the Thaksin "cult". None would now vote for the Democrats, or any party connected with them, on the grounds that although Thaksin
may have stolen Thailand's money, the Democrats were trying to steal their votes and their rights. Surprisingly astute for what the PAD consider a bunch of uninformed peasants .