United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship

populist movement, Thailand

Also known as: UDD

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In Thailand: Yellow shirts and red shirts
…a populist movement called the United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD). The UDD organized protests against this latest change of government, which in April forced the cancellation of an Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit meeting outside Bangkok. Security forces were able to disperse the protesters, but antigovernment…
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In Yingluck Shinawatra
…became known as the “red shirts,” while his opponents, mainly urban elites, were dubbed the “yellow shirts.” Tensions between the two groups mounted, culminating in prolonged mass protests by the red shirts in the spring of 2010 in central Bangkok that eventually were forcibly suppressed by the Thai military.
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