Thailand, South Korea: Solidarity with Egypt's struggle for democracy
On February 1, 2011, about 100 members of Thailand's mass democracy (Red Shirts) and student movements gathered outside the Egyptian embassy in Bangkok to send solidarity and support to the people of Egypt fighting to rid their country of the dictatorial regime of Hosni Mubarak. The protest was organised and supported by the Student Federation of Thailand (SFT) and member organisations, Thai Youth for Democracy, 24 June Group and other democratic networks.
Egyptians and Koreans stand with one voice to denounce the Mubarak regime
By Roddy Quines, Seoul
On January 31, 2011, more than 200 Egyptians and Koreans protested in front of the Egyptian embassy in Seoul to show their solidarity with the protesters in Egypt. They burnt images of Mubarak and chanted out “Down, down Mubarak!” and “Free, free, Egypt!”. The chants were in English, Arabic and Korean.
Above: Egyptians burn images of Mubarak outside the Egyptian embassy in Hannam Dong Seoul.
Above and Below: Signs in Korean, Arabic and English called for Mubarak to step down.
All images from www.left21.com.
Eqypt will fuel Thailand's fire
The riots in Egypt, and earlier in Tunisia, will only add fuel to the Red Shirt (and maybe together with the Yellow Shirts) fire giving them impetus for future protests and riots.
Encouraging
The slides from the Thai protest were awesome, and I'm also happy to see the smilingly defiant people of S Korea protesting as well! Could this become a world-wide movement for better conditions & more human rights (whatever that means)?