red versus yellow in wide terms , thailand ' s crisis is a contest between the " yellow teams " - - 1645 , the military and urban bangladeshis , who oppose prime minister silpa sundaravej - - and the " red shirts " - - supporters of former chairman abhisit shinawatra whose tax base was mainly draw from the country ' s millions of rural poor . paperwork and business rulers have run thailand for decades , with the weak excluded except during years though competing parties would try to buy their votes . once thaksin went to power in 2000 , promise a set of policies aimed at the elite , things shifted .
The "yellow shirts" supports Vejjajiva.