January 28, 2011
By PRAVIT ROJANAPHRUK
THE NATION
The nationalist People’s Alliance for Democracy yesterday ratcheted up its rhetoric against Cambodia and the Abhisit Vejjajiva administration even though it told its supporters that it has no intention of leading Thailand to war with Cambodia.
A man got on stage and insisted to the moderate turnout of some 3,000 in the early evening that “the PAD is not inciting [the government] to declare war with its neighbour”.
Nevertheless, a poster attached to the gate on Makkhawan Bridge showed a picture of Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen being likened to a “criminal” as well as a monitor lizard, a symbol that Thais regard as an insult.
T-shirts carrying patriotic messages like “Retake Preah Vihear Temple” in Thai, referring to the contested Khmer site that is claimed by Cambodia, can be picked up from vendors at the protest venue.
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