Have a look at all the ruling Bangkok elite, allmost all of them from Chinese decent.

They control the money and therefore control the army

Now have a look at the rural red shirts, allmost all of them ethnic Thais.

90% of the population v the other 10%

Is this a race war in the making?

Nonsense.

Chinese descendants are on both sides, since they have a tendency to be in a lot of the important positions. And sometimes the schoolkids divide themselves up in two teams and fight...

Please re-check your understanding of the makeup of this country as there are other regions that contain Thai people besides the North East.

And as for the rest of this post, I am sorry but I think we have about ten million threads concerning the protests and everything else, that you can feel free to find one to jump into without promoting potentially racist comments.

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