The so-called Red Shirts, led by the United Democratic Front against Dictatorship,or UDD, have the backing of the main parliamentary opposition group, the Puea Thai Party.
VOA: standard.2010.03.20
Whenever I write about the lack of third-party HD-DVRs, I inevitably receive a slew of email gently pointing me to the HD TiVo, a device DirecTV (the aforementioned benevolent dictatorship) so kindly offers.
Although turnout was low around 30% of the 3.5m voters that hardly mattered compared with the relief over a day free of fraud or violence in a country so recently emerged from dictatorship and civil conflict.
America saw her as the best way of putting a democratic face on a military dictatorship, so it helped broker the agreement that saw her return to Pakistan in October to fight elections due in January.