Red-shirt villages' nationwide 'federation'
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Some 4,000 so-called 'red-shirt villages' declared yesterday they had joined as a confederation to strengthen the "fight against dictatorship" and help bring former premier Thaksin Shinawatra back to Thailand.
About 200 representatives from the red-shirt villages met yesterday in Udon Thani. They voted Police Second Lieutenant Kamolsilp Singhasuriya, chairman of Udon Thani red-shirt villages, as chairman of the Red-Shirts Village for Democracy Federation.
He said the federation would act as a coordination centre for red-shirt villages and would promote establishment of more such villages nationwide.
Former charter drafter Kanin Boonsuwan and Prasong Boonpong, a former deputy leader of the now-defunct People Power Party, also joined yesterday's event.
