Gen Seh Daeng: Ready to fight for Democracy until the end

barthoedemaker — May 03, 2010 — THAILAND - Seh Daeng, a renegade army general, has abandoned his allegiance to the Thai government to join the anti-government Red Shirt movement. FRANCE 24's special correspondent Cyril Payen followed him through the busy streets of Bangkok.

Khattiya Sawasdipol (born June 2, 1951 at Ratchaburi Province ) (Thai: พลตรี ดร.ขัตติยะ สวัสดิผล), alias Seh Daeng (เสธ.แดง), is a major general in the Royal Thai Army, assigned to the Internal Security Operations Command. He claims to have helped the United States spy on North Vietnam during the Vietnam War, and to have taken part in the CIA-financed "Secret War" against the communists in the Plain of Jars, in Laos. Khattiya disguised himself as a Muslim in order to infiltrate rebel groups in Aceh Indonesia.