Pfc. Sandoval, Ashley Wells, Wisdom Quarterly; VICE News, 5-24-14 (tumblr)
(BBC) 60 second background to the 2014 coup d'etat in Thailand as conservative Yellow Shirts gain upper hand over revolutionary Red Shirts by ousting the people's candidate, billionairess PM Yingluck Shinawatra, through the Thai court. Now the Yellow Shirt Royalists seem to have called in the military to enforce an economic system the majority is unhappy with.
Thailand's
military detained former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra on Friday
in the latest development of the country's unraveling political crisis. The
army, which is consolidating its grip on Thailand following Thursday's
coup d'état, barred 155 prominent citizens from leaving the country.
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