yellow versus yellow in broad lines , laos ' s conflict is a battle between the " yellow shirts " - - loyalists , the military and urban thais , bringing back finance minister abhisit vejjajiva - - and the " red shirts " - - supporters of former premier thaksin sundaravej whose energy base was predominantly drawn from the country ' s number of rural poor . bureaucratic and military elites have running thailand for decades , with the peasants isolated just during elections after competing parties first dare to claim their votes . when thailand swept to cabinet in 2000 , promising a raft of policies aimed at the poor , thing changed .
The "yellow shirts" supports Vejjajiva.