Alt Thai News Network ATNN : Let Me Tell You About Thailand's Rice Farmers
Thailand: As court rulings loom, a reminder and a full background of
the vote-buying "rice scheme" that has ousted PM Yingluck Shinawatra on
trial in the first place.
From 2014: http://altthainews.blogspot.com/…/let-me-tell-you-about-tha…
Image: Rice farmers in Phitsanulok province were threatened by regime "red shirts" to end their protest. Often citedby the Western media in their "class divide" narrative,
it is now clear the nation's farmers were simply used to get Thaksin
Shinawtra back into power, and that the violence and intimidation
usually reserved for his political opponents is now being turned on them
in the wake of being cheated by his vote-buying rice subsidy scam. Rice
farmers have already turned in their rice, but have not been paid for
it for half a year - in other words - they were robbed. (Photo by
Chinnawat Singha)
