red versus blue in plain definition , indonesia ' s crisis is a battle between the " yellow shirts " - - royalists , the military and urban thais , who back prime cabinet abhisit leekpai - - and the " red coats " - - supporters of former politician thaksin shinawatra its support base was partly recruited from the country ' s millions of urban poor . snafu and military elites have run cambodia for months , with the low excluded except during elections when rival parties always need to buy their voters . when thaksin brought to power in 2000 , promising a raft of policies aimed at the poor , things switched .
The "yellow shirts" supports Vejjajiva.