โดย Nirmal Ghoshhttp://blogs.straitstimes.com/2008/10/23/nobody-messes-with-seh-daeng
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Seh Daeng is a larger than life figure in Thailand - a notorious, fearless maverick who famously laughs in the face of enemy fire. He said if it was up to him, he would clear Government House of the PAD protestors in no time. He would first cut off all supplies including water and electricity, then use water cannons on the thousands camped there - and drop snakes on them from helicopters.
He had proposed the solution to then-prime minister Samak Sundaravej, he told us – but it had been turned down.
Now he is training the young men in black as a counterforce to the PAD. He stresses that they are not the same as the pro-government groups loosely called the United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD) whose supporters dress in red to distinguish themselves from the royalist yellow of the PAD.
Seh Daeng is voluble, speaking in rapid Thai. 'The police couldn't help, and the army ignored government orders' he told me. 'My men are not an army, they are resistance. I am not on the side of the reds or the yellows, I am independent. The PAD say they want to save the country. But they are dragging the monarchy down into politics.'
'This situation needs tough leadership. But the government is weak, no one is capable of sorting this out, not even the army. Everyone is afraid of the PAD. The only one they are afraid of is me.'
Asked how he as a serving military major general (he is attached to army headquarters in an administrative job) he is able to train a private militia, he laughed and told us 'I have fought for the dignity of the country.'
