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  • 11 MAY 2013 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: A Yellow Shirt protester makes iced tea at the Yellow Shirt camp in Bangkok. A faction of the Yellow Shirts are camping at Sanam Luang, the royal parade ground in front of the Grand Palace, to show support for the Thai monarchy and the Thai Constitutional Court. The court has become a flash point in Thai politics because Red Shirts claim the court is biased against them and have been protesting against the court, calling for the justices' ouster and replacement with justices more open to the Red Shirts. The Yellow Shirt protest at Sanam Luang is calling for the Justices to remain on the court.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 11 MAY 2013 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: A Yellow Shirt protester makes iced tea at the Yellow Shirt camp in Bangkok. A faction of the Yellow Shirts are camping at Sanam Luang, the royal parade ground in front of the Grand Palace, to show support for the Thai monarchy and the Thai Constitutional Court. The court has become a flash point in Thai politics because Red Shirts claim the court is biased against them and have been protesting against the court, calling for the justices' ouster and replacement with justices more open to the Red Shirts. The Yellow Shirt protest at Sanam Luang is calling for the Justices to remain on the court.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
    Bangkok0511040.jpg
  • 11 MAY 2013 - BANGKOK, THAILAND:  A Yellow Shirt protester with a guitar shaped like an assault rifle performs in the Yellow Shirt encampment on Sanam Luang. A faction of the Yellow Shirts are camping at Sanam Luang, the royal parade ground in front of the Grand Palace, to show support for the Thai monarchy and the Thai Constitutional Court. The court has become a flash point in Thai politics because Red Shirts claim the court is biased against them and have been protesting against the court, calling for the justices' ouster and replacement with justices more open to the Red Shirts. The Yellow Shirt protest at Sanam Luang is calling for the Justices to remain on the court.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
    Bangkok0511045.jpg
  • 11 MAY 2013 - BANGKOK, THAILAND:  A Yellow Shirt protester with a guitar shaped like an assault rifle performs in the Yellow Shirt encampment on Sanam Luang. A faction of the Yellow Shirts are camping at Sanam Luang, the royal parade ground in front of the Grand Palace, to show support for the Thai monarchy and the Thai Constitutional Court. The court has become a flash point in Thai politics because Red Shirts claim the court is biased against them and have been protesting against the court, calling for the justices' ouster and replacement with justices more open to the Red Shirts. The Yellow Shirt protest at Sanam Luang is calling for the Justices to remain on the court.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
    Bangkok0511044.jpg
  • 11 MAY 2013 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: A Yellow Shirt protester makes iced tea at the Yellow Shirt camp in Bangkok. A faction of the Yellow Shirts are camping at Sanam Luang, the royal parade ground in front of the Grand Palace, to show support for the Thai monarchy and the Thai Constitutional Court. The court has become a flash point in Thai politics because Red Shirts claim the court is biased against them and have been protesting against the court, calling for the justices' ouster and replacement with justices more open to the Red Shirts. The Yellow Shirt protest at Sanam Luang is calling for the Justices to remain on the court.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
    Bangkok0511041.jpg
  • 11 MAY 2013 - BANGKOK, THAILAND:  A Yellow Shirt protester with a guitar shaped like an assault rifle performs in the Yellow Shirt encampment on Sanam Luang. A faction of the Yellow Shirts are camping at Sanam Luang, the royal parade ground in front of the Grand Palace, to show support for the Thai monarchy and the Thai Constitutional Court. The court has become a flash point in Thai politics because Red Shirts claim the court is biased against them and have been protesting against the court, calling for the justices' ouster and replacement with justices more open to the Red Shirts. The Yellow Shirt protest at Sanam Luang is calling for the Justices to remain on the court.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
    Bangkok0511045.jpg
  • 11 MAY 2013 - BANGKOK, THAILAND:  A Yellow Shirt protester with a guitar shaped like an assault rifle performs in the Yellow Shirt encampment on Sanam Luang. A faction of the Yellow Shirts are camping at Sanam Luang, the royal parade ground in front of the Grand Palace, to show support for the Thai monarchy and the Thai Constitutional Court. The court has become a flash point in Thai politics because Red Shirts claim the court is biased against them and have been protesting against the court, calling for the justices' ouster and replacement with justices more open to the Red Shirts. The Yellow Shirt protest at Sanam Luang is calling for the Justices to remain on the court.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
    Bangkok0511044.jpg
  • 11 MAY 2013 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: A Yellow Shirt protester makes iced tea at the Yellow Shirt camp in Bangkok. A faction of the Yellow Shirts are camping at Sanam Luang, the royal parade ground in front of the Grand Palace, to show support for the Thai monarchy and the Thai Constitutional Court. The court has become a flash point in Thai politics because Red Shirts claim the court is biased against them and have been protesting against the court, calling for the justices' ouster and replacement with justices more open to the Red Shirts. The Yellow Shirt protest at Sanam Luang is calling for the Justices to remain on the court.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
    Bangkok0511041.jpg
  • 11 MAY 2013 - BANGKOK, THAILAND:  A Yellow Shirt protester with a guitar shaped like an assault rifle performs in the Yellow Shirt encampment on Sanam Luang. A faction of the Yellow Shirts are camping at Sanam Luang, the royal parade ground in front of the Grand Palace, to show support for the Thai monarchy and the Thai Constitutional Court. The court has become a flash point in Thai politics because Red Shirts claim the court is biased against them and have been protesting against the court, calling for the justices' ouster and replacement with justices more open to the Red Shirts. The Yellow Shirt protest at Sanam Luang is calling for the Justices to remain on the court.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
    Bangkok0511045.jpg
  • 11 MAY 2013 - BANGKOK, THAILAND:  A Yellow Shirt protester with a guitar shaped like an assault rifle performs in the Yellow Shirt encampment on Sanam Luang. A faction of the Yellow Shirts are camping at Sanam Luang, the royal parade ground in front of the Grand Palace, to show support for the Thai monarchy and the Thai Constitutional Court. The court has become a flash point in Thai politics because Red Shirts claim the court is biased against them and have been protesting against the court, calling for the justices' ouster and replacement with justices more open to the Red Shirts. The Yellow Shirt protest at Sanam Luang is calling for the Justices to remain on the court.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
    Bangkok0511044.jpg
  • 11 MAY 2013 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: A Yellow Shirt protester makes iced tea at the Yellow Shirt camp in Bangkok. A faction of the Yellow Shirts are camping at Sanam Luang, the royal parade ground in front of the Grand Palace, to show support for the Thai monarchy and the Thai Constitutional Court. The court has become a flash point in Thai politics because Red Shirts claim the court is biased against them and have been protesting against the court, calling for the justices' ouster and replacement with justices more open to the Red Shirts. The Yellow Shirt protest at Sanam Luang is calling for the Justices to remain on the court.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
    Bangkok0511040.jpg
  • 11 MAY 2013 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: A Yellow Shirt protester makes iced tea at the Yellow Shirt camp in Bangkok. A faction of the Yellow Shirts are camping at Sanam Luang, the royal parade ground in front of the Grand Palace, to show support for the Thai monarchy and the Thai Constitutional Court. The court has become a flash point in Thai politics because Red Shirts claim the court is biased against them and have been protesting against the court, calling for the justices' ouster and replacement with justices more open to the Red Shirts. The Yellow Shirt protest at Sanam Luang is calling for the Justices to remain on the court.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
    Bangkok0511040.jpg
  • 10 MAY 2014 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: ROBERT AMSTERDAM, attorney for ousted Thai Prime Thaksin Shinawatra, speaks to the crowd at a Red Shirt rally in Bangkok. The Red Shirts chanted, in English, "We Love You!!" when Amersterdam took the stage. Amsterdam told the Red Shirts to be calm in the face of provocations by the anti-government Yellow Shirts. Thousands of Thai Red Shirts, members of the United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD), members of the ruling Pheu Thai party and supporters of the government of ousted Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra are rallying on Aksa Road in the Bangkok suburbs. The government was ousted by a court ruling earlier in the week that deposed Yingluck because the judges said she acted unconstitutionally in a personnel matter early in her administration. Thailand now has no functioning government. Red Shirt leaders said at the rally Saturday that any attempt to impose an unelected government on Thailand could spark a civil war. This is the third consecutive popularly elected UDD supported government ousted by the courts in less than 10 years.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 11 MAY 2013 - BANGKOK, THAILAND:  Yellow Shirt protesters dance to Thai country music in their encampment on Sanam Luang. A faction of the Yellow Shirts are camping at Sanam Luang, the royal parade ground in front of the Grand Palace, to show support for the Thai monarchy and the Thai Constitutional Court. The court has become a flash point in Thai politics because Red Shirts claim the court is biased against them and have been protesting against the court, calling for the justices' ouster and replacement with justices more open to the Red Shirts. The Yellow Shirt protest at Sanam Luang is calling for the Justices to remain on the court.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
    Bangkok0511046.jpg
  • 11 MAY 2013 - BANGKOK, THAILAND:  Yellow Shirt protesters dance to Thai country music in their encampment on Sanam Luang. A faction of the Yellow Shirts are camping at Sanam Luang, the royal parade ground in front of the Grand Palace, to show support for the Thai monarchy and the Thai Constitutional Court. The court has become a flash point in Thai politics because Red Shirts claim the court is biased against them and have been protesting against the court, calling for the justices' ouster and replacement with justices more open to the Red Shirts. The Yellow Shirt protest at Sanam Luang is calling for the Justices to remain on the court.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
    Bangkok0511047.jpg
  • 11 MAY 2013 - BANGKOK, THAILAND:  Yellow Shirt protesters dance to Thai country music in their encampment on Sanam Luang. A faction of the Yellow Shirts are camping at Sanam Luang, the royal parade ground in front of the Grand Palace, to show support for the Thai monarchy and the Thai Constitutional Court. The court has become a flash point in Thai politics because Red Shirts claim the court is biased against them and have been protesting against the court, calling for the justices' ouster and replacement with justices more open to the Red Shirts. The Yellow Shirt protest at Sanam Luang is calling for the Justices to remain on the court.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
    Bangkok0511047.jpg
  • 11 MAY 2013 - BANGKOK, THAILAND:  Yellow Shirt protesters dance to Thai country music in their encampment on Sanam Luang. A faction of the Yellow Shirts are camping at Sanam Luang, the royal parade ground in front of the Grand Palace, to show support for the Thai monarchy and the Thai Constitutional Court. The court has become a flash point in Thai politics because Red Shirts claim the court is biased against them and have been protesting against the court, calling for the justices' ouster and replacement with justices more open to the Red Shirts. The Yellow Shirt protest at Sanam Luang is calling for the Justices to remain on the court.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
    Bangkok0511043.jpg
  • 11 MAY 2013 - BANGKOK, THAILAND:  Yellow Shirt protesters dance to Thai country music in their encampment on Sanam Luang. A faction of the Yellow Shirts are camping at Sanam Luang, the royal parade ground in front of the Grand Palace, to show support for the Thai monarchy and the Thai Constitutional Court. The court has become a flash point in Thai politics because Red Shirts claim the court is biased against them and have been protesting against the court, calling for the justices' ouster and replacement with justices more open to the Red Shirts. The Yellow Shirt protest at Sanam Luang is calling for the Justices to remain on the court.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
    Bangkok0511047.jpg
  • 11 MAY 2013 - BANGKOK, THAILAND:  Yellow Shirt protesters dance to Thai country music in their encampment on Sanam Luang. A faction of the Yellow Shirts are camping at Sanam Luang, the royal parade ground in front of the Grand Palace, to show support for the Thai monarchy and the Thai Constitutional Court. The court has become a flash point in Thai politics because Red Shirts claim the court is biased against them and have been protesting against the court, calling for the justices' ouster and replacement with justices more open to the Red Shirts. The Yellow Shirt protest at Sanam Luang is calling for the Justices to remain on the court.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
    Bangkok0511043.jpg
  • 11 MAY 2013 - BANGKOK, THAILAND:  Yellow Shirt protesters dance to Thai country music in their encampment on Sanam Luang. A faction of the Yellow Shirts are camping at Sanam Luang, the royal parade ground in front of the Grand Palace, to show support for the Thai monarchy and the Thai Constitutional Court. The court has become a flash point in Thai politics because Red Shirts claim the court is biased against them and have been protesting against the court, calling for the justices' ouster and replacement with justices more open to the Red Shirts. The Yellow Shirt protest at Sanam Luang is calling for the Justices to remain on the court.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
    Bangkok0511042.jpg
  • 11 MAY 2013 - BANGKOK, THAILAND:  Yellow Shirt protesters dance to Thai country music in their encampment on Sanam Luang. A faction of the Yellow Shirts are camping at Sanam Luang, the royal parade ground in front of the Grand Palace, to show support for the Thai monarchy and the Thai Constitutional Court. The court has become a flash point in Thai politics because Red Shirts claim the court is biased against them and have been protesting against the court, calling for the justices' ouster and replacement with justices more open to the Red Shirts. The Yellow Shirt protest at Sanam Luang is calling for the Justices to remain on the court.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
    Bangkok0511046.jpg
  • 11 MAY 2013 - BANGKOK, THAILAND:  Yellow Shirt protesters dance to Thai country music in their encampment on Sanam Luang. A faction of the Yellow Shirts are camping at Sanam Luang, the royal parade ground in front of the Grand Palace, to show support for the Thai monarchy and the Thai Constitutional Court. The court has become a flash point in Thai politics because Red Shirts claim the court is biased against them and have been protesting against the court, calling for the justices' ouster and replacement with justices more open to the Red Shirts. The Yellow Shirt protest at Sanam Luang is calling for the Justices to remain on the court.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
    Bangkok0511042.jpg
  • 11 MAY 2013 - BANGKOK, THAILAND:  Yellow Shirt protesters dance to Thai country music in their encampment on Sanam Luang. A faction of the Yellow Shirts are camping at Sanam Luang, the royal parade ground in front of the Grand Palace, to show support for the Thai monarchy and the Thai Constitutional Court. The court has become a flash point in Thai politics because Red Shirts claim the court is biased against them and have been protesting against the court, calling for the justices' ouster and replacement with justices more open to the Red Shirts. The Yellow Shirt protest at Sanam Luang is calling for the Justices to remain on the court.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
    Bangkok0511046.jpg
  • 11 MAY 2013 - BANGKOK, THAILAND:  Yellow Shirt protesters dance to Thai country music in their encampment on Sanam Luang. A faction of the Yellow Shirts are camping at Sanam Luang, the royal parade ground in front of the Grand Palace, to show support for the Thai monarchy and the Thai Constitutional Court. The court has become a flash point in Thai politics because Red Shirts claim the court is biased against them and have been protesting against the court, calling for the justices' ouster and replacement with justices more open to the Red Shirts. The Yellow Shirt protest at Sanam Luang is calling for the Justices to remain on the court.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
    Bangkok0511042.jpg
  • 11 MAY 2013 - BANGKOK, THAILAND:  Yellow Shirt protesters dance to Thai country music in their encampment on Sanam Luang. A faction of the Yellow Shirts are camping at Sanam Luang, the royal parade ground in front of the Grand Palace, to show support for the Thai monarchy and the Thai Constitutional Court. The court has become a flash point in Thai politics because Red Shirts claim the court is biased against them and have been protesting against the court, calling for the justices' ouster and replacement with justices more open to the Red Shirts. The Yellow Shirt protest at Sanam Luang is calling for the Justices to remain on the court.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
    Bangkok0511043.jpg
  • 10 MAY 2014 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: ROBERT AMSTERDAM, attorney for ousted Thai Prime Thaksin Shinawatra, talks to Red Shirt leaders in Bangkok. Amsterdam told the Red Shirts to be calm in the face of provocations by the anti-government Yellow Shirts. Thousands of Thai Red Shirts, members of the United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD), members of the ruling Pheu Thai party and supporters of the government of ousted Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra are rallying on Aksa Road in the Bangkok suburbs. The government was ousted by a court ruling earlier in the week that deposed Yingluck because the judges said she acted unconstitutionally in a personnel matter early in her administration. Thailand now has no functioning government. Red Shirt leaders said at the rally Saturday that any attempt to impose an unelected government on Thailand could spark a civil war. This is the third consecutive popularly elected UDD supported government ousted by the courts in less than 10 years.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 10 MAY 2014 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: A Red Shirt supporter holds a water buffalo yoke over his head at a Red Shirt rally in Bangkok. Some Yellow Shirts call the Reds "water buffalo" as an insult and the Reds have co-opted the term and use it as a point of pride. Thousands of Thai Red Shirts, members of the United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD), members of the ruling Pheu Thai party and supporters of the government of ousted Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra are rallying on Aksa Road in the Bangkok suburbs. The government was ousted by a court ruling earlier in the week that deposed Yingluck because the judges said she acted unconstitutionally in a personnel matter early in her administration. Thailand now has no functioning government. Red Shirt leaders said at the rally Saturday that any attempt to impose an unelected government on Thailand could spark a civil war. This is the third consecutive popularly elected UDD supported government ousted by the courts in less than 10 years.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
    RedShirtsAksaRoad0510007.jpg
  • 10 MAY 2014 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: Red Shirts with obscene signs of Yellow Shirt leader Suthep Thaugsuban wait for the Red Shirt rally to start. Thousands of Thai Red Shirts, members of the United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD), members of the ruling Pheu Thai party and supporters of the government of ousted Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra are rallying on Aksa Road in the Bangkok suburbs. The government was ousted by a court ruling earlier in the week that deposed Yingluck because the judges said she acted unconstitutionally in a personnel matter early in her administration. Thailand now has no functioning government. Red Shirt leaders said at the rally Saturday that any attempt to impose an unelected government on Thailand could spark a civil war. This is the third consecutive popularly elected UDD supported government ousted by the courts in less than 10 years.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
    RedShirtsAksaRoad0510011.jpg
  • 10 MAY 2014 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: A Red Shirt supporter holds a water buffalo yoke over his head at a Red Shirt rally in Bangkok. Some Yellow Shirts call the Reds "water buffalo" as an insult and the Reds have co-opted the term and use it as a point of pride. Thousands of Thai Red Shirts, members of the United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD), members of the ruling Pheu Thai party and supporters of the government of ousted Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra are rallying on Aksa Road in the Bangkok suburbs. The government was ousted by a court ruling earlier in the week that deposed Yingluck because the judges said she acted unconstitutionally in a personnel matter early in her administration. Thailand now has no functioning government. Red Shirt leaders said at the rally Saturday that any attempt to impose an unelected government on Thailand could spark a civil war. This is the third consecutive popularly elected UDD supported government ousted by the courts in less than 10 years.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
    RedShirtsAksaRoad0510008.jpg
  • 10 MAY 2014 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: A Red Shirt supporter holds a water buffalo yoke over his head at a Red Shirt rally in Bangkok. Some Yellow Shirts call the Reds "water buffalo" as an insult and the Reds have co-opted the term and use it as a point of pride. Thousands of Thai Red Shirts, members of the United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD), members of the ruling Pheu Thai party and supporters of the government of ousted Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra are rallying on Aksa Road in the Bangkok suburbs. The government was ousted by a court ruling earlier in the week that deposed Yingluck because the judges said she acted unconstitutionally in a personnel matter early in her administration. Thailand now has no functioning government. Red Shirt leaders said at the rally Saturday that any attempt to impose an unelected government on Thailand could spark a civil war. This is the third consecutive popularly elected UDD supported government ousted by the courts in less than 10 years.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 03 JULY 2011 - BANGKOK, THAILAND:   A tuk-tuk (three wheeled taxi) and motor scooter drive past a Yingluck Shinawatra poster on election day in Bangkok, Thailand, Sunday July 3. She is running for Prime Minister of Thailand, the graffiti on the wall refers to Thai Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya, a Yellow Shirt leader who endorsed a violent crackdown against the Red Shirts in 2010. The Red Shirts are the street movement of Pheu Thai, the party of Yingluck Shinawatra. More than 47,000,000 Thais were registered to vote in Sunday's election, which had turned into a referendum on the current government, led, by the Thai Democrats and the oppositionPheu Thai party. Pheu Thai is the latest political incarnation of ousted Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. PT is led by his youngest sister, Yingluck Shinawatra, who is the party's candidate for Prime Minister. Exit polling by three Thai polling firms showed Pheu Thai winning a landslide election.   PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 22 JUNE 2011 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: Thai Yellow Shirts call for a no vote during a pre-election rally in Bangkok on Wednesday, June 22. The PAD (People's Alliance for Democracy) or Yellow Shirts, as they are popularly called, has called for a "No" vote in Thailand's national election, scheduled for July 3. PAD leadership hopes the no vote will negate the vote of Yingluck Shinawatra, leader of the Pheua Thai party. Yingluck is the youngest sister of exiled former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, deposed by a military coup in 2006. Yingluck is currently leading in opinion polls, running well ahead of incumbent Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, head of the Democrat party, which in one form or another has ruled Thailand for most of the last 60 years.     Photo by Jack Kurtz
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  • 22 JUNE 2011 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: Thai Yellow Shirts call for a no vote during a pre-election rally in Bangkok on Wednesday, June 22. The PAD (People's Alliance for Democracy) or Yellow Shirts, as they are popularly called, has called for a "No" vote in Thailand's national election, scheduled for July 3. PAD leadership hopes the no vote will negate the vote of Yingluck Shinawatra, leader of the Pheua Thai party. Yingluck is the youngest sister of exiled former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, deposed by a military coup in 2006. Yingluck is currently leading in opinion polls, running well ahead of incumbent Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, head of the Democrat party, which in one form or another has ruled Thailand for most of the last 60 years.     Photo by Jack Kurtz
    BangkokElectionRally022.jpg
  • 22 JUNE 2011 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: Thai Yellow Shirts call for a no vote during a pre-election rally in Bangkok on Wednesday, June 22. The PAD (People's Alliance for Democracy) or Yellow Shirts, as they are popularly called, has called for a "No" vote in Thailand's national election, scheduled for July 3. PAD leadership hopes the no vote will negate the vote of Yingluck Shinawatra, leader of the Pheua Thai party. Yingluck is the youngest sister of exiled former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, deposed by a military coup in 2006. Yingluck is currently leading in opinion polls, running well ahead of incumbent Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, head of the Democrat party, which in one form or another has ruled Thailand for most of the last 60 years.     Photo by Jack Kurtz
    BangkokElectionRally041.jpg
  • 22 JUNE 2011 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: Thai Yellow Shirts call for a no vote during a pre-election rally in Bangkok on Wednesday, June 22. The PAD (People's Alliance for Democracy) or Yellow Shirts, as they are popularly called, has called for a "No" vote in Thailand's national election, scheduled for July 3. PAD leadership hopes the no vote will negate the vote of Yingluck Shinawatra, leader of the Pheua Thai party. Yingluck is the youngest sister of exiled former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, deposed by a military coup in 2006. Yingluck is currently leading in opinion polls, running well ahead of incumbent Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, head of the Democrat party, which in one form or another has ruled Thailand for most of the last 60 years.     Photo by Jack Kurtz
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  • 22 JUNE 2011 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: Thai Yellow Shirts close Sukhumvit Rd, one of Bangkok's main streets, and call for a no vote during a pre-election rally in Bangkok on Wednesday, June 22. The PAD (People's Alliance for Democracy) or Yellow Shirts, as they are popularly called, has called for a "No" vote in Thailand's national election, scheduled for July 3. PAD leadership hopes the no vote will negate the vote of Yingluck Shinawatra, leader of the Pheua Thai party. Yingluck is the youngest sister of exiled former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, deposed by a military coup in 2006. Yingluck is currently leading in opinion polls, running well ahead of incumbent Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, head of the Democrat party, which in one form or another has ruled Thailand for most of the last 60 years.     Photo by Jack Kurtz
    BangkokElectionRally039.jpg
  • 22 JUNE 2011 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: Thai Yellow Shirts call for a no vote during a pre-election rally in Bangkok on Wednesday, June 22. The PAD (People's Alliance for Democracy) or Yellow Shirts, as they are popularly called, has called for a "No" vote in Thailand's national election, scheduled for July 3. PAD leadership hopes the no vote will negate the vote of Yingluck Shinawatra, leader of the Pheua Thai party. Yingluck is the youngest sister of exiled former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, deposed by a military coup in 2006. Yingluck is currently leading in opinion polls, running well ahead of incumbent Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, head of the Democrat party, which in one form or another has ruled Thailand for most of the last 60 years.     Photo by Jack Kurtz
    BangkokElectionRally036.jpg
  • 22 JUNE 2011 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: Thai Yellow Shirts call for a no vote during a pre-election rally in Bangkok on Wednesday, June 22. The PAD (People's Alliance for Democracy) or Yellow Shirts, as they are popularly called, has called for a "No" vote in Thailand's national election, scheduled for July 3. PAD leadership hopes the no vote will negate the vote of Yingluck Shinawatra, leader of the Pheua Thai party. Yingluck is the youngest sister of exiled former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, deposed by a military coup in 2006. Yingluck is currently leading in opinion polls, running well ahead of incumbent Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, head of the Democrat party, which in one form or another has ruled Thailand for most of the last 60 years.     Photo by Jack Kurtz
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  • 22 JUNE 2011 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: Thai Yellow Shirts call for a no vote during a pre-election rally in Bangkok on Wednesday, June 22. The PAD (People's Alliance for Democracy) or Yellow Shirts, as they are popularly called, has called for a "No" vote in Thailand's national election, scheduled for July 3. PAD leadership hopes the no vote will negate the vote of Yingluck Shinawatra, leader of the Pheua Thai party. Yingluck is the youngest sister of exiled former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, deposed by a military coup in 2006. Yingluck is currently leading in opinion polls, running well ahead of incumbent Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, head of the Democrat party, which in one form or another has ruled Thailand for most of the last 60 years.     Photo by Jack Kurtz
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  • 22 JUNE 2011 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: Thai Yellow Shirts call for a no vote during a pre-election rally in Bangkok on Wednesday, June 22. The PAD (People's Alliance for Democracy) or Yellow Shirts, as they are popularly called, has called for a "No" vote in Thailand's national election, scheduled for July 3. PAD leadership hopes the no vote will negate the vote of Yingluck Shinawatra, leader of the Pheua Thai party. Yingluck is the youngest sister of exiled former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, deposed by a military coup in 2006. Yingluck is currently leading in opinion polls, running well ahead of incumbent Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, head of the Democrat party, which in one form or another has ruled Thailand for most of the last 60 years.     Photo by Jack Kurtz
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  • 22 JUNE 2011 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: Thai Yellow Shirts call for a no vote during a pre-election rally in Bangkok on Wednesday, June 22. The PAD (People's Alliance for Democracy) or Yellow Shirts, as they are popularly called, has called for a "No" vote in Thailand's national election, scheduled for July 3. PAD leadership hopes the no vote will negate the vote of Yingluck Shinawatra, leader of the Pheua Thai party. Yingluck is the youngest sister of exiled former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, deposed by a military coup in 2006. Yingluck is currently leading in opinion polls, running well ahead of incumbent Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, head of the Democrat party, which in one form or another has ruled Thailand for most of the last 60 years.     Photo by Jack Kurtz
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  • 22 JUNE 2011 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: Thai Yellow Shirts call for a no vote during a pre-election rally in Bangkok on Wednesday, June 22. The PAD (People's Alliance for Democracy) or Yellow Shirts, as they are popularly called, has called for a "No" vote in Thailand's national election, scheduled for July 3. PAD leadership hopes the no vote will negate the vote of Yingluck Shinawatra, leader of the Pheua Thai party. Yingluck is the youngest sister of exiled former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, deposed by a military coup in 2006. Yingluck is currently leading in opinion polls, running well ahead of incumbent Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, head of the Democrat party, which in one form or another has ruled Thailand for most of the last 60 years.     Photo by Jack Kurtz
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  • 22 JUNE 2011 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: A Thai Muslim woman who supports the Yellow Shirts calls for a no vote during a pre-election rally in Bangkok on Wednesday, June 22. The PAD (People's Alliance for Democracy) or Yellow Shirts, as they are popularly called, has called for a "No" vote in Thailand's national election, scheduled for July 3. PAD leadership hopes the no vote will negate the vote of Yingluck Shinawatra, leader of the Pheua Thai party. Yingluck is the youngest sister of exiled former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, deposed by a military coup in 2006. Yingluck is currently leading in opinion polls, running well ahead of incumbent Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, head of the Democrat party, which in one form or another has ruled Thailand for most of the last 60 years.     Photo by Jack Kurtz
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  • 22 JUNE 2011 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: Thai Yellow Shirts call for a no vote during a pre-election rally in Bangkok on Wednesday, June 22. The PAD (People's Alliance for Democracy) or Yellow Shirts, as they are popularly called, has called for a "No" vote in Thailand's national election, scheduled for July 3. PAD leadership hopes the no vote will negate the vote of Yingluck Shinawatra, leader of the Pheua Thai party. Yingluck is the youngest sister of exiled former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, deposed by a military coup in 2006. Yingluck is currently leading in opinion polls, running well ahead of incumbent Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, head of the Democrat party, which in one form or another has ruled Thailand for most of the last 60 years.     Photo by Jack Kurtz
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  • 22 JUNE 2011 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: Thai Yellow Shirts call for a no vote during a pre-election rally in Bangkok on Wednesday, June 22. The PAD (People's Alliance for Democracy) or Yellow Shirts, as they are popularly called, has called for a "No" vote in Thailand's national election, scheduled for July 3. PAD leadership hopes the no vote will negate the vote of Yingluck Shinawatra, leader of the Pheua Thai party. Yingluck is the youngest sister of exiled former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, deposed by a military coup in 2006. Yingluck is currently leading in opinion polls, running well ahead of incumbent Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, head of the Democrat party, which in one form or another has ruled Thailand for most of the last 60 years.     Photo by Jack Kurtz
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  • 22 JUNE 2011 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: Thai Yellow Shirts call for a no vote during a pre-election rally in Bangkok on Wednesday, June 22. The PAD (People's Alliance for Democracy) or Yellow Shirts, as they are popularly called, has called for a "No" vote in Thailand's national election, scheduled for July 3. PAD leadership hopes the no vote will negate the vote of Yingluck Shinawatra, leader of the Pheua Thai party. Yingluck is the youngest sister of exiled former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, deposed by a military coup in 2006. Yingluck is currently leading in opinion polls, running well ahead of incumbent Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, head of the Democrat party, which in one form or another has ruled Thailand for most of the last 60 years.     Photo by Jack Kurtz
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  • 22 JUNE 2011 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: Thai Yellow Shirts call for a no vote during a pre-election rally in Bangkok on Wednesday, June 22. The PAD (People's Alliance for Democracy) or Yellow Shirts, as they are popularly called, has called for a "No" vote in Thailand's national election, scheduled for July 3. PAD leadership hopes the no vote will negate the vote of Yingluck Shinawatra, leader of the Pheua Thai party. Yingluck is the youngest sister of exiled former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, deposed by a military coup in 2006. Yingluck is currently leading in opinion polls, running well ahead of incumbent Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, head of the Democrat party, which in one form or another has ruled Thailand for most of the last 60 years.     Photo by Jack Kurtz
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  • 22 JUNE 2011 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: Thai Yellow Shirts call for a no vote during a pre-election rally in Bangkok on Wednesday, June 22. The PAD (People's Alliance for Democracy) or Yellow Shirts, as they are popularly called, has called for a "No" vote in Thailand's national election, scheduled for July 3. PAD leadership hopes the no vote will negate the vote of Yingluck Shinawatra, leader of the Pheua Thai party. Yingluck is the youngest sister of exiled former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, deposed by a military coup in 2006. Yingluck is currently leading in opinion polls, running well ahead of incumbent Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, head of the Democrat party, which in one form or another has ruled Thailand for most of the last 60 years.     Photo by Jack Kurtz
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  • 22 JUNE 2011 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: Thai Yellow Shirts call for a no vote during a pre-election rally in Bangkok on Wednesday, June 22. The PAD (People's Alliance for Democracy) or Yellow Shirts, as they are popularly called, has called for a "No" vote in Thailand's national election, scheduled for July 3. PAD leadership hopes the no vote will negate the vote of Yingluck Shinawatra, leader of the Pheua Thai party. Yingluck is the youngest sister of exiled former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, deposed by a military coup in 2006. Yingluck is currently leading in opinion polls, running well ahead of incumbent Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, head of the Democrat party, which in one form or another has ruled Thailand for most of the last 60 years.     Photo by Jack Kurtz
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  • 22 JUNE 2011 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: Thai Yellow Shirts call for a no vote during a pre-election rally in Bangkok on Wednesday, June 22. The PAD (People's Alliance for Democracy) or Yellow Shirts, as they are popularly called, has called for a "No" vote in Thailand's national election, scheduled for July 3. PAD leadership hopes the no vote will negate the vote of Yingluck Shinawatra, leader of the Pheua Thai party. Yingluck is the youngest sister of exiled former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, deposed by a military coup in 2006. Yingluck is currently leading in opinion polls, running well ahead of incumbent Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, head of the Democrat party, which in one form or another has ruled Thailand for most of the last 60 years.     Photo by Jack Kurtz
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  • 22 JUNE 2011 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: A Thai Muslim woman who supports the Yellow Shirts calls for a no vote during a pre-election rally in Bangkok on Wednesday, June 22. The PAD (People's Alliance for Democracy) or Yellow Shirts, as they are popularly called, has called for a "No" vote in Thailand's national election, scheduled for July 3. PAD leadership hopes the no vote will negate the vote of Yingluck Shinawatra, leader of the Pheua Thai party. Yingluck is the youngest sister of exiled former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, deposed by a military coup in 2006. Yingluck is currently leading in opinion polls, running well ahead of incumbent Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, head of the Democrat party, which in one form or another has ruled Thailand for most of the last 60 years.     Photo by Jack Kurtz
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  • 22 JUNE 2011 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: A Thai Muslim woman who supports the Yellow Shirts calls for a no vote during a pre-election rally in Bangkok on Wednesday, June 22. The PAD (People's Alliance for Democracy) or Yellow Shirts, as they are popularly called, has called for a "No" vote in Thailand's national election, scheduled for July 3. PAD leadership hopes the no vote will negate the vote of Yingluck Shinawatra, leader of the Pheua Thai party. Yingluck is the youngest sister of exiled former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, deposed by a military coup in 2006. Yingluck is currently leading in opinion polls, running well ahead of incumbent Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, head of the Democrat party, which in one form or another has ruled Thailand for most of the last 60 years.     Photo by Jack Kurtz
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  • 22 JUNE 2011 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: Thai Yellow Shirts call for a no vote during a pre-election rally in Bangkok on Wednesday, June 22. The PAD (People's Alliance for Democracy) or Yellow Shirts, as they are popularly called, has called for a "No" vote in Thailand's national election, scheduled for July 3. PAD leadership hopes the no vote will negate the vote of Yingluck Shinawatra, leader of the Pheua Thai party. Yingluck is the youngest sister of exiled former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, deposed by a military coup in 2006. Yingluck is currently leading in opinion polls, running well ahead of incumbent Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, head of the Democrat party, which in one form or another has ruled Thailand for most of the last 60 years.     Photo by Jack Kurtz
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  • 22 JUNE 2011 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: Thai Yellow Shirts call for a no vote during a pre-election rally in Bangkok on Wednesday, June 22. The PAD (People's Alliance for Democracy) or Yellow Shirts, as they are popularly called, has called for a "No" vote in Thailand's national election, scheduled for July 3. PAD leadership hopes the no vote will negate the vote of Yingluck Shinawatra, leader of the Pheua Thai party. Yingluck is the youngest sister of exiled former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, deposed by a military coup in 2006. Yingluck is currently leading in opinion polls, running well ahead of incumbent Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, head of the Democrat party, which in one form or another has ruled Thailand for most of the last 60 years.     Photo by Jack Kurtz
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  • 10 MAY 2014 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: NATTAWUT SAIKUA, a leader of the Red Shirt movement, speaks to Red Shirts at a Red Shirt rally in Bangkok. Thousands of Thai Red Shirts, members of the United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD), members of the ruling Pheu Thai party and supporters of the government of ousted Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra are rallying on Aksa Road in the Bangkok suburbs. The government was ousted by a court ruling earlier in the week that deposed Yingluck because the judges said she acted unconstitutionally in a personnel matter early in her administration. Thailand now has no functioning government. Red Shirt leaders said at the rally Saturday that any attempt to impose an unelected government on Thailand could spark a civil war. This is the third consecutive popularly elected UDD supported government ousted by the courts in less than 10 years.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 22 JUNE 2011 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: CHAMLONG SRIMAUNG, a Yellow Shirt leader and organizer of the vote "no" campaign, works the crowd a PAD rally in Bangkok on Wednesday, June 22. The PAD (People's Alliance for Democracy) or Yellow Shirts, as they are popularly called, has called for a "No" vote in Thailand's national election, scheduled for July 3. PAD leadership hopes the no vote will negate the vote of Yingluck Shinawatra, leader of the Pheua Thai party. Yingluck is the youngest sister of exiled former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, deposed by a military coup in 2006. Yingluck is currently leading in opinion polls, running well ahead of incumbent Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, head of the Democrat party, which in one form or another has ruled Thailand for most of the last 60 years.     Photo by Jack Kurtz
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  • 22 JUNE 2011 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: CHAMLONG SRIMAUNG, a Yellow Shirt leader and organizer of the vote "no" campaign, works the crowd a PAD rally in Bangkok on Wednesday, June 22. The PAD (People's Alliance for Democracy) or Yellow Shirts, as they are popularly called, has called for a "No" vote in Thailand's national election, scheduled for July 3. PAD leadership hopes the no vote will negate the vote of Yingluck Shinawatra, leader of the Pheua Thai party. Yingluck is the youngest sister of exiled former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, deposed by a military coup in 2006. Yingluck is currently leading in opinion polls, running well ahead of incumbent Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, head of the Democrat party, which in one form or another has ruled Thailand for most of the last 60 years.     Photo by Jack Kurtz
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  • 22 JUNE 2011 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: CHAMLONG SRIMAUNG, a Yellow Shirt leader and organizer of the vote "no" campaign, works the crowd a PAD rally in Bangkok on Wednesday, June 22. The PAD (People's Alliance for Democracy) or Yellow Shirts, as they are popularly called, has called for a "No" vote in Thailand's national election, scheduled for July 3. PAD leadership hopes the no vote will negate the vote of Yingluck Shinawatra, leader of the Pheua Thai party. Yingluck is the youngest sister of exiled former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, deposed by a military coup in 2006. Yingluck is currently leading in opinion polls, running well ahead of incumbent Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, head of the Democrat party, which in one form or another has ruled Thailand for most of the last 60 years.     Photo by Jack Kurtz
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  • 22 JUNE 2011 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: A Thai Yellow Shirt calls for a no vote in front of campaign posters from other parties during a pre-election rally in Bangkok on Wednesday, June 22. The PAD (People's Alliance for Democracy) or Yellow Shirts, as they are popularly called, has called for a "No" vote in Thailand's national election, scheduled for July 3. PAD leadership hopes the no vote will negate the vote of Yingluck Shinawatra, leader of the Pheua Thai party. Yingluck is the youngest sister of exiled former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, deposed by a military coup in 2006. Yingluck is currently leading in opinion polls, running well ahead of incumbent Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, head of the Democrat party, which in one form or another has ruled Thailand for most of the last 60 years.     Photo by Jack Kurtz
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  • 22 JUNE 2011 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: CHAMLONG SRIMAUNG, a Yellow Shirt leader and organizer of the vote "no" campaign, works the crowd a PAD rally in Bangkok on Wednesday, June 22. The PAD (People's Alliance for Democracy) or Yellow Shirts, as they are popularly called, has called for a "No" vote in Thailand's national election, scheduled for July 3. PAD leadership hopes the no vote will negate the vote of Yingluck Shinawatra, leader of the Pheua Thai party. Yingluck is the youngest sister of exiled former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, deposed by a military coup in 2006. Yingluck is currently leading in opinion polls, running well ahead of incumbent Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, head of the Democrat party, which in one form or another has ruled Thailand for most of the last 60 years.     Photo by Jack Kurtz
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  • 22 JUNE 2011 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: A Thai Yellow Shirt calls for a no vote in front of campaign posters from other parties during a pre-election rally in Bangkok on Wednesday, June 22. The PAD (People's Alliance for Democracy) or Yellow Shirts, as they are popularly called, has called for a "No" vote in Thailand's national election, scheduled for July 3. PAD leadership hopes the no vote will negate the vote of Yingluck Shinawatra, leader of the Pheua Thai party. Yingluck is the youngest sister of exiled former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, deposed by a military coup in 2006. Yingluck is currently leading in opinion polls, running well ahead of incumbent Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, head of the Democrat party, which in one form or another has ruled Thailand for most of the last 60 years.     Photo by Jack Kurtz
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  • 22 JUNE 2011 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: CHAMLONG SRIMAUNG, a Yellow Shirt leader and organizer of the vote "no" campaign, works the crowd a PAD rally in Bangkok on Wednesday, June 22. The PAD (People's Alliance for Democracy) or Yellow Shirts, as they are popularly called, has called for a "No" vote in Thailand's national election, scheduled for July 3. PAD leadership hopes the no vote will negate the vote of Yingluck Shinawatra, leader of the Pheua Thai party. Yingluck is the youngest sister of exiled former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, deposed by a military coup in 2006. Yingluck is currently leading in opinion polls, running well ahead of incumbent Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, head of the Democrat party, which in one form or another has ruled Thailand for most of the last 60 years.     Photo by Jack Kurtz
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  • 22 JUNE 2011 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: A Thai Yellow Shirt at a PAD vote "no" rally in Bangkok on Wednesday, June 22. The PAD (People's Alliance for Democracy) or Yellow Shirts, as they are popularly called, has called for a "No" vote in Thailand's national election, scheduled for July 3. PAD leadership hopes the no vote will negate the vote of Yingluck Shinawatra, leader of the Pheua Thai party. Yingluck is the youngest sister of exiled former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, deposed by a military coup in 2006. Yingluck is currently leading in opinion polls, running well ahead of incumbent Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, head of the Democrat party, which in one form or another has ruled Thailand for most of the last 60 years.     Photo by Jack Kurtz
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  • 10 MAY 2014 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: JUTAPORN PROMPAN, leader of the Red Shirts, speaks at a rally in Bangkok. Thousands of Thai Red Shirts, members of the United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD), members of the ruling Pheu Thai party and supporters of the government of ousted Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra are rallying on Aksa Road in the Bangkok suburbs. The government was ousted by a court ruling earlier in the week that deposed Yingluck because the judges said she acted unconstitutionally in a personnel matter early in her administration. Thailand now has no functioning government. Red Shirt leaders said at the rally Saturday that any attempt to impose an unelected government on Thailand could spark a civil war. This is the third consecutive popularly elected UDD supported government ousted by the courts in less than 10 years.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 10 MAY 2014 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: Thai Red Shirts cheer for ousted Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra at a rally in Bangkok. Thousands of Thai Red Shirts, members of the United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD), members of the ruling Pheu Thai party and supporters of the government of ousted Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra are rallying on Aksa Road in the Bangkok suburbs. The government was ousted by a court ruling earlier in the week that deposed Yingluck because the judges said she acted unconstitutionally in a personnel matter early in her administration. Thailand now has no functioning government. Red Shirt leaders said at the rally Saturday that any attempt to impose an unelected government on Thailand could spark a civil war. This is the third consecutive popularly elected UDD supported government ousted by the courts in less than 10 years.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 10 MAY 2014 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: JUTAPORN PROMPAN, leader of the Red Shirts, speaks at a rally in Bangkok. Thousands of Thai Red Shirts, members of the United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD), members of the ruling Pheu Thai party and supporters of the government of ousted Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra are rallying on Aksa Road in the Bangkok suburbs. The government was ousted by a court ruling earlier in the week that deposed Yingluck because the judges said she acted unconstitutionally in a personnel matter early in her administration. Thailand now has no functioning government. Red Shirt leaders said at the rally Saturday that any attempt to impose an unelected government on Thailand could spark a civil war. This is the third consecutive popularly elected UDD supported government ousted by the courts in less than 10 years.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 10 MAY 2014 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: Thai Red Shirts cheer for ousted Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra at a rally in Bangkok. Thousands of Thai Red Shirts, members of the United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD), members of the ruling Pheu Thai party and supporters of the government of ousted Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra are rallying on Aksa Road in the Bangkok suburbs. The government was ousted by a court ruling earlier in the week that deposed Yingluck because the judges said she acted unconstitutionally in a personnel matter early in her administration. Thailand now has no functioning government. Red Shirt leaders said at the rally Saturday that any attempt to impose an unelected government on Thailand could spark a civil war. This is the third consecutive popularly elected UDD supported government ousted by the courts in less than 10 years.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 10 MAY 2014 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: Thai Red Shirts cheer for ousted Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra at a rally in Bangkok. Thousands of Thai Red Shirts, members of the United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD), members of the ruling Pheu Thai party and supporters of the government of ousted Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra are rallying on Aksa Road in the Bangkok suburbs. The government was ousted by a court ruling earlier in the week that deposed Yingluck because the judges said she acted unconstitutionally in a personnel matter early in her administration. Thailand now has no functioning government. Red Shirt leaders said at the rally Saturday that any attempt to impose an unelected government on Thailand could spark a civil war. This is the third consecutive popularly elected UDD supported government ousted by the courts in less than 10 years.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 10 MAY 2014 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: Thai Red Shirts cheer for ousted Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra at a rally in Bangkok. Thousands of Thai Red Shirts, members of the United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD), members of the ruling Pheu Thai party and supporters of the government of ousted Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra are rallying on Aksa Road in the Bangkok suburbs. The government was ousted by a court ruling earlier in the week that deposed Yingluck because the judges said she acted unconstitutionally in a personnel matter early in her administration. Thailand now has no functioning government. Red Shirt leaders said at the rally Saturday that any attempt to impose an unelected government on Thailand could spark a civil war. This is the third consecutive popularly elected UDD supported government ousted by the courts in less than 10 years.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 10 MAY 2014 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: Thai Red Shirts cheer for ousted Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra at a rally in Bangkok. Thousands of Thai Red Shirts, members of the United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD), members of the ruling Pheu Thai party and supporters of the government of ousted Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra are rallying on Aksa Road in the Bangkok suburbs. The government was ousted by a court ruling earlier in the week that deposed Yingluck because the judges said she acted unconstitutionally in a personnel matter early in her administration. Thailand now has no functioning government. Red Shirt leaders said at the rally Saturday that any attempt to impose an unelected government on Thailand could spark a civil war. This is the third consecutive popularly elected UDD supported government ousted by the courts in less than 10 years.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 10 MAY 2014 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: Thai Red Shirts cheer for ousted Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra at a rally in Bangkok. Thousands of Thai Red Shirts, members of the United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD), members of the ruling Pheu Thai party and supporters of the government of ousted Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra are rallying on Aksa Road in the Bangkok suburbs. The government was ousted by a court ruling earlier in the week that deposed Yingluck because the judges said she acted unconstitutionally in a personnel matter early in her administration. Thailand now has no functioning government. Red Shirt leaders said at the rally Saturday that any attempt to impose an unelected government on Thailand could spark a civil war. This is the third consecutive popularly elected UDD supported government ousted by the courts in less than 10 years.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 10 MAY 2014 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: JUTAPORN PROMPAN, leader of the Red Shirts, speaks at a rally in Bangkok. Thousands of Thai Red Shirts, members of the United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD), members of the ruling Pheu Thai party and supporters of the government of ousted Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra are rallying on Aksa Road in the Bangkok suburbs. The government was ousted by a court ruling earlier in the week that deposed Yingluck because the judges said she acted unconstitutionally in a personnel matter early in her administration. Thailand now has no functioning government. Red Shirt leaders said at the rally Saturday that any attempt to impose an unelected government on Thailand could spark a civil war. This is the third consecutive popularly elected UDD supported government ousted by the courts in less than 10 years.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 10 MAY 2014 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: JUTAPORN PROMPAN, leader of the Red Shirts, speaks at a rally in Bangkok. Thousands of Thai Red Shirts, members of the United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD), members of the ruling Pheu Thai party and supporters of the government of ousted Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra are rallying on Aksa Road in the Bangkok suburbs. The government was ousted by a court ruling earlier in the week that deposed Yingluck because the judges said she acted unconstitutionally in a personnel matter early in her administration. Thailand now has no functioning government. Red Shirt leaders said at the rally Saturday that any attempt to impose an unelected government on Thailand could spark a civil war. This is the third consecutive popularly elected UDD supported government ousted by the courts in less than 10 years.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 10 MAY 2014 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: JUTAPORN PROMPAN, leader of the Red Shirts, talks to reporters in Bangkok. Thousands of Thai Red Shirts, members of the United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD), members of the ruling Pheu Thai party and supporters of the government of ousted Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra are rallying on Aksa Road in the Bangkok suburbs. The government was ousted by a court ruling earlier in the week that deposed Yingluck because the judges said she acted unconstitutionally in a personnel matter early in her administration. Thailand now has no functioning government. Red Shirt leaders said at the rally Saturday that any attempt to impose an unelected government on Thailand could spark a civil war. This is the third consecutive popularly elected UDD supported government ousted by the courts in less than 10 years.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 10 MAY 2014 - BANGKOK, THAILAND:  JUTAPORN PROMPAN, leader of the Red Shirts, speaks at a rally in Bangkok. Thousands of Thai Red Shirts, members of the United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD), members of the ruling Pheu Thai party and supporters of the government of ousted Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra are rallying on Aksa Road in the Bangkok suburbs. The government was ousted by a court ruling earlier in the week that deposed Yingluck because the judges said she acted unconstitutionally in a personnel matter early in her administration. Thailand now has no functioning government. Red Shirt leaders said at the rally Saturday that any attempt to impose an unelected government on Thailand could spark a civil war. This is the third consecutive popularly elected UDD supported government ousted by the courts in less than 10 years.   PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 10 MAY 2014 - BANGKOK, THAILAND:  JUTAPORN PROMPAN, leader of the Red Shirts, speaks at a rally in Bangkok. Thousands of Thai Red Shirts, members of the United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD), members of the ruling Pheu Thai party and supporters of the government of ousted Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra are rallying on Aksa Road in the Bangkok suburbs. The government was ousted by a court ruling earlier in the week that deposed Yingluck because the judges said she acted unconstitutionally in a personnel matter early in her administration. Thailand now has no functioning government. Red Shirt leaders said at the rally Saturday that any attempt to impose an unelected government on Thailand could spark a civil war. This is the third consecutive popularly elected UDD supported government ousted by the courts in less than 10 years.   PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 10 MAY 2014 - BANGKOK, THAILAND:  JUTAPORN PROMPAN, leader of the Red Shirts, speaks at a rally in Bangkok. Thousands of Thai Red Shirts, members of the United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD), members of the ruling Pheu Thai party and supporters of the government of ousted Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra are rallying on Aksa Road in the Bangkok suburbs. The government was ousted by a court ruling earlier in the week that deposed Yingluck because the judges said she acted unconstitutionally in a personnel matter early in her administration. Thailand now has no functioning government. Red Shirt leaders said at the rally Saturday that any attempt to impose an unelected government on Thailand could spark a civil war. This is the third consecutive popularly elected UDD supported government ousted by the courts in less than 10 years.   PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 10 MAY 2014 - BANGKOK, THAILAND:  JUTAPORN PROMPAN, leader of the Red Shirts, speaks at a rally in Bangkok. Thousands of Thai Red Shirts, members of the United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD), members of the ruling Pheu Thai party and supporters of the government of ousted Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra are rallying on Aksa Road in the Bangkok suburbs. The government was ousted by a court ruling earlier in the week that deposed Yingluck because the judges said she acted unconstitutionally in a personnel matter early in her administration. Thailand now has no functioning government. Red Shirt leaders said at the rally Saturday that any attempt to impose an unelected government on Thailand could spark a civil war. This is the third consecutive popularly elected UDD supported government ousted by the courts in less than 10 years.   PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 10 MAY 2014 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: Red Shirts arrive at a pro-government rally in Bangkok. Thousands of Thai Red Shirts, members of the United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD), members of the ruling Pheu Thai party and supporters of the government of ousted Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra are rallying on Aksa Road in the Bangkok suburbs. The government was ousted by a court ruling earlier in the week that deposed Yingluck because the judges said she acted unconstitutionally in a personnel matter early in her administration. Thailand now has no functioning government. Red Shirt leaders said at the rally Saturday that any attempt to impose an unelected government on Thailand could spark a civil war. This is the third consecutive popularly elected UDD supported government ousted by the courts in less than 10 years.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • Mar. 26, 2009 -- BANGKOK, THAILAND: An anti-government protestor tries to whip up the crowd during a Red Shirt rally in Bangkok. More than 30,000 members of the United Front of Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD), also known as the "Red Shirts"  and their supporters descended on central Bangkok Thursday to protest against and demand the resignation of current Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva and his government. Abhisit was not at Government House Thursday. The protest is a continuation of protests the Red Shirts have been holding across Thailand in March.  Photo by Jack Kurtz / ZUMA Press
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  • Mar. 26, 2009 -- BANGKOK, THAILAND: People hold up signs at a protest of Red Shirts in Bangkok Thursday. More than 30,000 members of the United Front of Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD), also known as the "Red Shirts"  and their supporters descended on central Bangkok Thursday to protest against and demand the resignation of current Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva and his government. Abhisit was not at Government House Thursday. The protest is a continuation of protests the Red Shirts have been holding across Thailand in March.  Photo by Jack Kurtz
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  • Mar. 26, 2009 -- BANGKOK, THAILAND: People hold up signs at a protest of Red Shirts in Bangkok Thursday. More than 30,000 members of the United Front of Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD), also known as the "Red Shirts"  and their supporters descended on central Bangkok Thursday to protest against and demand the resignation of current Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva and his government. Abhisit was not at Government House Thursday. The protest is a continuation of protests the Red Shirts have been holding across Thailand in March.  Photo by Jack Kurtz
    RedShirtUDDProtest017.jpg
  • Mar. 26, 2009 -- BANGKOK, THAILAND: A woman dances in classical Thai style during a Red Shirt rally in Bangkok Thursday. More than 30,000 members of the United Front of Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD), also known as the "Red Shirts"  and their supporters descended on central Bangkok Thursday to protest against and demand the resignation of current Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva and his government. Abhisit was not at Government House Thursday. The protest is a continuation of protests the Red Shirts have been holding across Thailand in March.  Photo by Jack Kurtz
    RedShirtUDDProtest016.jpg
  • Mar. 26, 2009 -- BANGKOK, THAILAND: An anti-government protestor cheers for the opposition during a Red Shirt rally in Bangkok Thursday. More than 30,000 members of the United Front of Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD), also known as the "Red Shirts"  and their supporters descended on central Bangkok Thursday to protest against and demand the resignation of current Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva and his government. Abhisit was not at Government House Thursday. The protest is a continuation of protests the Red Shirts have been holding across Thailand in March.  Photo by Jack Kurtz
    RedShirtUDDProtest015.jpg
  • Mar. 26, 2009 -- BANGKOK, THAILAND: People hold up signs at a protest of Red Shirts in Bangkok Thursday. More than 30,000 members of the United Front of Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD), also known as the "Red Shirts"  and their supporters descended on central Bangkok Thursday to protest against and demand the resignation of current Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva and his government. Abhisit was not at Government House Thursday. The protest is a continuation of protests the Red Shirts have been holding across Thailand in March.  Photo by Jack Kurtz
    RedShirtUDDProtest012.jpg
  • Mar. 26, 2009 -- BANGKOK, THAILAND: People hold up signs at a protest of Red Shirts in Bangkok Thursday. More than 30,000 members of the United Front of Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD), also known as the "Red Shirts"  and their supporters descended on central Bangkok Thursday to protest against and demand the resignation of current Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva and his government. Abhisit was not at Government House Thursday. The protest is a continuation of protests the Red Shirts have been holding across Thailand in March.  Photo by Jack Kurtz
    RedShirtUDDProtest011.jpg
  • Mar. 26, 2009 -- BANGKOK, THAILAND: The crowd of Red Shirts in front of the Royal Palace in Bangkok. More than 30,000 members of the United Front of Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD), also known as the "Red Shirts,"  and their supporters descended on central Bangkok Thursday to protest against and demand the resignation of current Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva and his government. Abhisit was not at Government House Thursday. The protest is a continuation of protests the Red Shirts have been holding across Thailand in March.  Photo by Jack Kurtz
    RedShirtUDDProtest003.jpg
  • 10 MAY 2014 - BANGKOK, THAILAND:  JUTAPORN PROMPAN, leader of the Red Shirts, speaks at a rally in Bangkok. Thousands of Thai Red Shirts, members of the United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD), members of the ruling Pheu Thai party and supporters of the government of ousted Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra are rallying on Aksa Road in the Bangkok suburbs. The government was ousted by a court ruling earlier in the week that deposed Yingluck because the judges said she acted unconstitutionally in a personnel matter early in her administration. Thailand now has no functioning government. Red Shirt leaders said at the rally Saturday that any attempt to impose an unelected government on Thailand could spark a civil war. This is the third consecutive popularly elected UDD supported government ousted by the courts in less than 10 years.   PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
    RedShirtsAksaRoad0510021.jpg
  • Mar. 26, 2009 -- BANGKOK, THAILAND: An anti-government protestor cheers for the opposition during a Red Shirt rally in Bangkok Thursday. More than 30,000 members of the United Front of Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD), also known as the "Red Shirts"  and their supporters descended on central Bangkok Thursday to protest against and demand the resignation of current Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva and his government. Abhisit was not at Government House Thursday. The protest is a continuation of protests the Red Shirts have been holding across Thailand in March.  Photo by Jack Kurtz
    RedShirtUDDProtest014.jpg
  • Mar. 26, 2009 -- BANGKOK, THAILAND: An anti-government protestor cheers for the opposition during a Red Shirt rally in Bangkok Thursday. More than 30,000 members of the United Front of Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD), also known as the "Red Shirts"  and their supporters descended on central Bangkok Thursday to protest against and demand the resignation of current Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva and his government. Abhisit was not at Government House Thursday. The protest is a continuation of protests the Red Shirts have been holding across Thailand in March.  Photo by Jack Kurtz
    RedShirtUDDProtest013.jpg
  • Mar. 26, 2009 -- BANGKOK, THAILAND: People hold up signs at a protest of Red Shirts in Bangkok Thursday. More than 30,000 members of the United Front of Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD), also known as the "Red Shirts"  and their supporters descended on central Bangkok Thursday to protest against and demand the resignation of current Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva and his government. Abhisit was not at Government House Thursday. The protest is a continuation of protests the Red Shirts have been holding across Thailand in March.  Photo by Jack Kurtz
    RedShirtUDDProtest001.jpg
  • 10 MAY 2014 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: NATTAWUT SAIKUA, a leader of the Red Shirt movement, greets supporters when he arrived at a Red Shirt rally in Bangkok. Thousands of Thai Red Shirts, members of the United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD), members of the ruling Pheu Thai party and supporters of the government of ousted Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra are rallying on Aksa Road in the Bangkok suburbs. The government was ousted by a court ruling earlier in the week that deposed Yingluck because the judges said she acted unconstitutionally in a personnel matter early in her administration. Thailand now has no functioning government. Red Shirt leaders said at the rally Saturday that any attempt to impose an unelected government on Thailand could spark a civil war. This is the third consecutive popularly elected UDD supported government ousted by the courts in less than 10 years.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
    RedShirtsAksaRoad0510032.jpg
  • 10 MAY 2014 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: NATTAWUT SAIKUA, a leader of the Red Shirt movement, greets supporters when he arrived at a Red Shirt rally in Bangkok. Thousands of Thai Red Shirts, members of the United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD), members of the ruling Pheu Thai party and supporters of the government of ousted Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra are rallying on Aksa Road in the Bangkok suburbs. The government was ousted by a court ruling earlier in the week that deposed Yingluck because the judges said she acted unconstitutionally in a personnel matter early in her administration. Thailand now has no functioning government. Red Shirt leaders said at the rally Saturday that any attempt to impose an unelected government on Thailand could spark a civil war. This is the third consecutive popularly elected UDD supported government ousted by the courts in less than 10 years.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
    RedShirtsAksaRoad0510031.jpg
  • 10 MAY 2014 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: Red Shirt supporters wave their noise makers in the air at a Red Shirt rally in Bangkok. Thousands of Thai Red Shirts, members of the United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD), members of the ruling Pheu Thai party and supporters of the government of ousted Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra are rallying on Aksa Road in the Bangkok suburbs. The government was ousted by a court ruling earlier in the week that deposed Yingluck because the judges said she acted unconstitutionally in a personnel matter early in her administration. Thailand now has no functioning government. Red Shirt leaders said at the rally Saturday that any attempt to impose an unelected government on Thailand could spark a civil war. This is the third consecutive popularly elected UDD supported government ousted by the courts in less than 10 years.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
    RedShirtsAksaRoad0510029.jpg
  • 10 MAY 2014 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: A supporter of Yingluck Shinawatra, carrying a photo of Yingluck and wearing a tee shirt with Yingluck's picture on it at a Red Shirt rally in Bangkok. Thousands of Thai Red Shirts, members of the United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD), members of the ruling Pheu Thai party and supporters of the government of ousted Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra are rallying on Aksa Road in the Bangkok suburbs. The government was ousted by a court ruling earlier in the week that deposed Yingluck because the judges said she acted unconstitutionally in a personnel matter early in her administration. Thailand now has no functioning government. Red Shirt leaders said at the rally Saturday that any attempt to impose an unelected government on Thailand could spark a civil war. This is the third consecutive popularly elected UDD supported government ousted by the courts in less than 10 years.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 10 MAY 2014 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: A supporter of Yingluck Shinawatra, carrying a photo of Yingluck and wearing a tee shirt with Yingluck's picture on it at a Red Shirt rally in Bangkok. Thousands of Thai Red Shirts, members of the United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD), members of the ruling Pheu Thai party and supporters of the government of ousted Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra are rallying on Aksa Road in the Bangkok suburbs. The government was ousted by a court ruling earlier in the week that deposed Yingluck because the judges said she acted unconstitutionally in a personnel matter early in her administration. Thailand now has no functioning government. Red Shirt leaders said at the rally Saturday that any attempt to impose an unelected government on Thailand could spark a civil war. This is the third consecutive popularly elected UDD supported government ousted by the courts in less than 10 years.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
    RedShirtsAksaRoad0510058.jpg
  • 10 MAY 2014 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: A Red Shirt supporter holds a chair with a photo of ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. Thaksin is revered by many in the Red Shirt movement. Thousands of Thai Red Shirts, members of the United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD), members of the ruling Pheu Thai party and supporters of the government of ousted Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra are rallying on Aksa Road in the Bangkok suburbs. The government was ousted by a court ruling earlier in the week that deposed Yingluck because the judges said she acted unconstitutionally in a personnel matter early in her administration. Thailand now has no functioning government. Red Shirt leaders said at the rally Saturday that any attempt to impose an unelected government on Thailand could spark a civil war. This is the third consecutive popularly elected UDD supported government ousted by the courts in less than 10 years.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
    RedShirtsAksaRoad0510050.jpg
  • 10 MAY 2014 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: NATTAWUT SAIKUA, a leader of the Red Shirt movement, greets supporters when he arrived at a Red Shirt rally in Bangkok. Thousands of Thai Red Shirts, members of the United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD), members of the ruling Pheu Thai party and supporters of the government of ousted Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra are rallying on Aksa Road in the Bangkok suburbs. The government was ousted by a court ruling earlier in the week that deposed Yingluck because the judges said she acted unconstitutionally in a personnel matter early in her administration. Thailand now has no functioning government. Red Shirt leaders said at the rally Saturday that any attempt to impose an unelected government on Thailand could spark a civil war. This is the third consecutive popularly elected UDD supported government ousted by the courts in less than 10 years.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
    RedShirtsAksaRoad0510030.jpg
  • 10 MAY 2014 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: A supporter of Yingluck Shinawatra, carrying a photo of Yingluck and wearing a tee shirt with Yingluck's picture on it at a Red Shirt rally in Bangkok. Thousands of Thai Red Shirts, members of the United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD), members of the ruling Pheu Thai party and supporters of the government of ousted Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra are rallying on Aksa Road in the Bangkok suburbs. The government was ousted by a court ruling earlier in the week that deposed Yingluck because the judges said she acted unconstitutionally in a personnel matter early in her administration. Thailand now has no functioning government. Red Shirt leaders said at the rally Saturday that any attempt to impose an unelected government on Thailand could spark a civil war. This is the third consecutive popularly elected UDD supported government ousted by the courts in less than 10 years.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
    RedShirtsAksaRoad0510004.jpg
  • 10 MAY 2014 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: Red Shirt supporters cheer at a Red Shirt rally in Bangkok. Thousands of Thai Red Shirts, members of the United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD), members of the ruling Pheu Thai party and supporters of the government of ousted Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra are rallying on Aksa Road in the Bangkok suburbs. The government was ousted by a court ruling earlier in the week that deposed Yingluck because the judges said she acted unconstitutionally in a personnel matter early in her administration. Thailand now has no functioning government. Red Shirt leaders said at the rally Saturday that any attempt to impose an unelected government on Thailand could spark a civil war. This is the third consecutive popularly elected UDD supported government ousted by the courts in less than 10 years.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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