Sentence:  The protests that led to the coup in 2014 were not as prolonged and damaging to the physical infrastructure as the <WSD>Red Shirt</WSD> protests of 2008 to 2012 had been. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A member of the UDD (National United Front for Democracy), supporters of Prime Minister  Shinawatra, (and subsequently Abhisit Vejajiva) in the conflict in Thailand after the 2006 coup d'etat.