Yellow Shirt

English

Alternative forms

• yellow shirt

Noun

Yellow Shirt (plural Yellow Shirts)

1. A member of the Popular Alliance for Democracy (PAD), the organization responsible for the coup d'etat in Thailand in 2006.

   Coordinate term: Red Shirt

   • 2014, N. Kim, Multicultural Challenges and Sustainable Democracy in Europe and East Asia, →ISBN:

     This need became clear with the emergence and conflicts between the Yellow Shirt movement (2005-13) and the Red Shirt movement (2007-present).

   • 2014, Pranee Liamputtong, Contemporary Socio-Cultural and Political Perspectives in Thailand, →ISBN:

     The mass demonstrations led by the Yellow Shirts since 2005 sought to expel Thaksin, whom they regard as highly corrupt, manipulative, and authoritarian – a major threat to the country's democracy, monarchy, and national security as a whole.

   • 2015, Andrew MacGregor Marshall, A Kingdom in Crisis, →ISBN:

     On the night of 6 October, the Yellow Shirts marched to parliament, erecting barricades with razor wire and booby traps.

   • 2016, Citizenship and Democratization in Southeast Asia, →ISBN, page 292:

     A survey with a sample size of 2,200 in five provinces, from the project Reexamining the Political Landscape of Thailand (Apichat et al., 2013) and conducted by Wanwiphand in April–June 2012, further confirmed Ammar's and Somchai's (2012) conclusions. Wanwiphand found that, firstly, Red Shirts were more likely to have lower socio-economic status than Yellow Shirts, and were also more likely to work in the agricultural or informal sectors.

2. Alternative form of yellow shirt
   • 1988, George C. Wilson, Supercarrier, →ISBN:

     Once out of the wire, the pilot would follow the hand signals of a Yellow Shirt, a sailor wearing a yellow shirt, to the parking place picked out with great care by another intense group of people playing musical chairs with airplanes from a room in the island on the same level as the flight deck.

   • 2009, Andrew Zenas Adkins, The Lawyer's Guide to Practice Management Systems Software, →ISBN:

     When he got to the ship, I stopped him and started my lecture. "Now, J. J., you know bringing liquor onboard is against regulations. I'm supposed to report you and have you thrown into the brig. But you and I have been through a lot together on the flight deck. So, this is what I'm going to do: I'm going to turn around and I want to hear two splashes. " I wanted to give J.J. a break — after all, he was my buddy and a fellow Yellow Shirt.

See also

• Red Shirt