Today’s New York Times has a story that looks at Sunday’s parliamentary by-election and ongoing tensions here in Thailand:
BANGKOK — In a parliamentary race this weekend that is being seen as a referendum on Bangkok’s recent upheavals, only one of the two leading candidates is campaigning.
The other is in prison, accused of terrorism for his leading role in the so-called red shirt protests, which paralyzed the city center until they were crushed by force in May.
The disparity underlines the divisions that persist in Thailand following a nine-week anti-government demonstration during which nearly 90 people were killed and more than 1,400 injured. Since then a sort of clenched turmoil has prevailed, with a surface-level calm concealing social and political conflict that most analysts say is likely to burst out again in the future.
(Emphasis mine.)
(Via @jonrussell.)
UPDATE: the WSJ also has a story today worth checking out: “Thai Divisions Shift to Voting Booth.”