THAILAND

Stopping the madness

Life, Yvonne Bohwongprasert, Published on 03/03/2014

» Festering anger over the senseless deaths of four children who became the latest victims of political violence in Trat province and Bangkok’s Ratchaprasong has put Veena, a noodle vendor with an avid interest in politics, on an emotional roller coaster. As she closely monitors what daily newspapers have to say on the deaths, she gets irate and begins to spew a tirade of insults about ousted prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra and his red-shirt supporters, whom she blames for being behind the incident. “They’re the aggressor, so terrible,” Veena says.