.- About 10 thousand protesters known as the "redshirts" protested today in the capital of Thailand against the prime minister, Abhisit Vejjajiva, and demanded to be tried for crimes against humanity in the International Criminal Tribunal in The Hague. The anti-government platform, led by the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship Vejjajiva wants to be judged by the protests last year that killed 92 people after the military.
Thailand does not recognize the jurisdiction of the tribunal in The Hague, but the "red shirts" argue that the prime minister also has British citizenship and, therefore, it can be processed. Vejjajiva was born in England because his parents worked there as teachers and, after studying at the prestigious Eton and Oxford centers, returned to Thailand.
After focusing on the commercial center of Bangkok, the red shirts went to the Supreme Court building, where he read several letters from their leaders arrested following demonstrations in March and May 2010. The protests, which were aimed at the overthrow of the government, ended after the charge of the soldiers against the camps of the "red shirts" in the commercial center of the capital and the declaration of a curfew for ten days.
Killed 92 people, including a dozen policemen and soldiers, and over 800 thousand injured since the first battle between soldiers and demonstrators on 10 April. Police arrested 17 leaders of the "red shirts" who are facing charges of terrorism and violating the state of emergency. The Thai crisis dates back to the 2006 coup against former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, which led to the creation of the platform of the "red shirts." Shinawatra, a police colonel who amassed a fortune in the telecommunications sector, living in exile and in 2008 was sentenced in absentia to two years in prison for corruption. 
Thailand does not recognize the jurisdiction of the tribunal in The Hague, but the "red shirts" argue that the prime minister also has British citizenship and, therefore, it can be processed. Vejjajiva was born in England because his parents worked there as teachers and, after studying at the prestigious Eton and Oxford centers, returned to Thailand.
After focusing on the commercial center of Bangkok, the red shirts went to the Supreme Court building, where he read several letters from their leaders arrested following demonstrations in March and May 2010. The protests, which were aimed at the overthrow of the government, ended after the charge of the soldiers against the camps of the "red shirts" in the commercial center of the capital and the declaration of a curfew for ten days.
Killed 92 people, including a dozen policemen and soldiers, and over 800 thousand injured since the first battle between soldiers and demonstrators on 10 April. Police arrested 17 leaders of the "red shirts" who are facing charges of terrorism and violating the state of emergency. The Thai crisis dates back to the 2006 coup against former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, which led to the creation of the platform of the "red shirts." Shinawatra, a police colonel who amassed a fortune in the telecommunications sector, living in exile and in 2008 was sentenced in absentia to two years in prison for corruption.
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