… Thailand’s Scariest
Bogeyman’  The Atlantic’s Patrick Winn provides
backstory on “Thailand’s scariest bogeyman.” He’s “not the sort of
man you want to make angry. General Khattiya maintains his own
gun-toting militia. He accurately predicts grenade attacks against
government targets. And though he’s vowed to defend the anti-government ‘Red Shirt’ protesters encamped for nine weeks in downtown
Bangkok, even their leadership has disavowed him for openly
agitating violence.”

Can The
‘Demographic Time Bomb’ Spread?  The Japan Times’ Christopher Johnson worries,
“After two decades of migration from northern provinces which doubled
Bangkok’s population, these poor dark-skinned laborers — and their
city-bred offspring — have essentially held the government hostage and
pushed it to call for November elections a year ahead of schedule. This
demographic time bomb also exists in Shanghai, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Ho
Chi Minh City (Saigon), Manila and other cities with huge migrant
populations. If Thailand’s red shirt uprising is a revolution of rising
expectations among the servant class, then migrant laborers elsewhere
might also demand a greater share of political power.”

See the full article from “The AtlanticWire (blog)”




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