A Thai Greek tragedy?

Almost impossible to follow and verrrrry hard to comment:  The Thai Tragedy 2010.
Of course, I'm just a farang living in Amsterdam.  But that is true twice.  To some extend I have a very subjective view on the world:  I am against war, most "-ismen" and an anti nationalist. Many people call me an utopist, unrealistic and when needed even an enlighted dictator.  I have to confess:  I said myself, "rather an enlighted dictator than a corrupt democrat.", some 16 years ago in political forums on CompuServe.   In those day's it was not done to have explicit opinions.  Most posts were starting with "IMHO ...."  (=in my humble opinion) defending fascistoid view points.  Not much has changed, people still vent discriminating opinions and often based on ignorance, unconsiousnes or plain stupidity.  What did change is that for every post then, there are hundreds now.  And of co.urse, 90% is still nonsense, whatever the subject.   That makes it worse.  The quality didn't grow 100 times, only the quatity.   Therefore I will not ad another stupid opinion on the Thai tragedy but try to find opinions who might inform us and might give us some insight view. 
I was very interested in the view of Somtow Sukaritkul and the replies.  ( short: Somtow is a Bankok Thai who lived and studied in Europe and worked in Los Angeles as a writer. see his profile)
Of course, he triggered a lot of replies and that makes it difficult again.  But...  I found some interesting ones too.   It's Somtows blogg and he does moderate replies.  So perhaps some interesting "other-side-o-t-coin" replies might be missing.  After all, his blog isn't a forum.  :)
When I find more interesting links I will post them as a reply to this blog.
  http://www.somtow.org/2010/05/open-letter-to-red-shirts.html