red versus yellow in plain terms , india ' s crisis is a battle between the " yellow shirts " - - royalists , the military and urban thais , who beat home member abhisit shinawatra - - and the " red reds " - - supporters of former premier thaksin shinawatra whose power system was chiefly derived from the country ' s rich of rural poor . bureaucrats and military authorities have ruled thailand for decade , with the poor reduced except during changes when the parties might tried to buy their voting . since thaksin swept to power in 2000 , promised a raft of policies geared at the poor , things improved .
The "yellow shirts" supports Vejjajiva.