Channel 4's (UK) Unreported World program aired a 24 minute report entitled "Thailand's red fever" (unfortunately, it is blocked for those who are outside of the UK/don't have a UK IP address).* The synposis:
Reporter Aidan Hartley and director Matt Haan travel to Thailand to find that, while the world's news crews have moved on, millions of ordinary people are still locked in a political battle for the future of their country.
With bomb attacks still happening in Bangkok, the country teeters on the brink of chaos.
The team's journey begins on a train in Bangkok alongside hundreds of Red Shirts - supporters of a mass political movement opposed to the government. They're heading to a demonstration in the historic city of Ayutthaya, where, despite a heavy police presence, speakers demand democracy. If they don't get that, they fear there will be a revolution.
After a year of violence, attempts by the authorities to suppress the Red Shirts appear to have failed. With elections due in the next year, the King's authority fading and two factions fighting for the future of the country, it seems unlikely that Thailand's people will escape more bloodshed.
The program starts by looking at a recent red shirt protest in Ayuthaya, then the role of the monarchy, talks with a red shirt guard about why he likes Thaksin (30 Baht medical scheme and higher farm prices), visiting a red shirt community radio station in Khon Kaen (which had just come back on air), visiting a red shirt staying in the jungle who is in hiding and facing an arrest under the state of emergency (he says friends of his say non-violent actions haven't worked and they are re-thinking their strategy), coverage of the bomb on the outskirts of Bangkok which killed four people in the apartment of a red shirt supporter (see BP's post here about that), an interview with red shirt leader Jaran Ditapichai who is in hiding, a street protest by the yellow shirts and a brief interview with one yellow shirt guard, an interview with a yellow shirt at the protest on their views of the red shirts (some red shirts try to destroy the monarchy), another interview with a yellow shirt who said that Thailand had been unified until Thaksin came along, and an interview in Chiang Mai with the wife of Samai (who was the red shirt who rented an apartment on outskirts of Bangkok and where a bomb had gone off).
BP: Those who disliked CNN and BBC's coverage in March-May will mostly not like this report. Nevertheless, for someone like BP who watches a lot of Thai news, you don't really see such a wide array of interviews and if you stick to the interviews and ignore the voice-overs it is well worth watching.
*Then again, due to the subject matter and they wa certain issues are discussed, BP couldn't link to it directly anyway.
Ref: Asian correspondent (update: Dec. 11 2010 - 08:00 am)
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