Updated: PAD on Abhisit

Relations between the yellow shirts of PAD and Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva continue to deteriorate. PAD spokesman Panthep Puapongpan has complained  the premier’s televised address on Sunday night on the Thai-Cambodian border dispute. Panthep says the prime minister got the facts wrong.

Panthep insists that the “area where the seven Thais were arrested by Cambodian soldiers was a camp set up by Thai authorities for Cambodian refugees, and the government had allowed the fence to intrude on Thai territory.”

Panthep says that “Abhisit’s explanation of the border issue last night might cause the country to lose more land, and he could be be liable to punishment by life imprisonment or the death penalty…”.

This vehemence makes PPT wonder about suspected bombers with an array of weapons that suggests military connections (perhaps seek out the Sondhi Limthongkul gunmen?), the target of the current PAD rally and the reasons for PAD’s current intransigence. An election coming? A nationalist zealotry that potentially can mobilize a significant number of supporters? We don’t know, yet, but when Chamlong Srimuang gets motivated, the waters get murky.

Update: Interestingly, yellow-shirted protesters appear to scare business more than red shirts.

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