Social media sites abuzz as protesters plan for 'D-Day'

[Lite Beer]

Social media sites abuzz as protesters plan for 'D-Day'
Asina Pornwasin
The Sunday Nation

Some of the new profile pictures adopted by Thai users on Facebook and Twitter, after Monday was declared by protest leader Suthep Thaugsuban as D-Day

BANGKOK: -- Many social media users in Thailand have changed their profile pictures, especially on Facebook and Twitter, to show their support for tomorrow's "D-Day" - a call by anti-government rally leader Suthep Thaugsuban for a "people's uprising" against the so-called Thaksin regime.

Suthep, a former opposition Democrat Party MP and now secretary-general of the People's Democratic Reform Committee, called on protesters on Friday night to wage an all-out battle against the "Thaksin regime on Monday morning.

Since the call, Suthep's supporters on social media sites have responded by changing their profile pictures and posting thousands of messages about D-Day. Some said they were committed to joining the march - planned to begin tomorrow at 9.39am. Others shared information and also invited their friends to join them on the march, with posts, comments, "likes", and "shares" about D-Day on their Facebook timeline.

Several Thai Facebook users also said that they would be absent from work in order to join the D-Day march, while others said they would cancel appointments tomorrow so they could join the march against the "Thaksin regime" and Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra's government.

Among those groups and individuals who posted comments saying they would join the D-Day protests were such organisations such as Chulalongkorn University, V For Thailand, a group of IT people based in Thailand, Thai expatriates from overseas, lecturers, non-government organisations, and socialites.

-- The Nation 2013-12-08

[NongKhaiKid]

I am getting old, befuddled and my memory is going. Will someone remind me how may D-Days Suthep has called ?

[LuckyLew]

i think the word "d-ay" "final" and "last' have been played out

Perhaps he should just say "march until the end" 'or "rally until she quits'

Like the boy who cried wolf ...

[cacruden]

March? Thais march 20km - I suspect not.... if anything they will hop on motorcycle taxis and zip to the other site. If anything saying they will march 20km may scare some away

[quiuvo]

Doomsday for suthep indeed. Stop this victory day, d-day . Gets old. Like me

[rreddin]

The "Thai expatriats overseas" amuse me. Quite a few are contacts in my social media. Without exception, they have become citizens of their adopted countries and make a point of exercising their democratic choice of government repesentative, and for some their president. Yet, most of these people support an appointed legislature for their native Thailand. There is a word to describe them and It begins with H.