Political Update #2

I woke up today to a little thing called martial law.

If you dont remember my first political update, go back and read that so that this all makes a bit more sense.
Anyhow, Thaksin was found guilty of corruption and more than 50% of his assets were seized by the government.
Although many people were unhappy with the ruling there was very little unrest the night of the ruling. One group of redshirts burnt a spirit house, but that was it.

In the week after the ruling they got back to throwing grenades at branches of the Bangkok Bank. I think its kinda pathetic when you throw 4 gernades at 4 different branches, only 2 go off, and only 1 actually does damage. No one was hurt. And the suspect was arrested.

Meanwhile we found out that the army lost a bunch of weapons from an armory. At first it was thought to be a robbery, but later realized that they have been slowly removed for a longer period of time. We dont know if they are going to the southern insurgency or here to bangkok.

Starting tomorrow Red Shirt supporters from all over the country are coming into Bangkok. Some of them are even going to be docking at one of the piers that our ferry goes to every day to get to school. There will be checkpoints on all major roads comming into the city to check for weapons. The Redshirts were calling for one million people to show up, with the goal of forcing the government to dissolve parliament and having a snap election. However the most generous estimates put them at getting 600,000 people.
On the 14th is supposed to be the mass rally, that will be able to last up to 5 days. If there arent changes by then the Redshirts will run out of money and need to try something else.

Because of all this happening the government approved use of the International Security Act, which puts the military in charge of all of the security and puts the police under the military's purview.