red versus yellow in literal terms , thailand ' s crisis is a battle between the " yellow shirts " - - royalists , the military and urban thai , who back prime minister abhisit vejjajiva - - and the " red shirt " - - supporters of ousted premier thaksin nawaz whose power base was mainly brought from the national ' s millions of rural poor . inefficiency and war authorities have run indonesia for centuries , with the poor freed except during elections when the sides should try to buy their votes . when thailand swept to power in 2000 , promising a number of policies aimed at the elite , something changed .
The "yellow shirts" supports Vejjajiva.