Thaksin Shinawatra, the fugitive ex-prime minister and fomenter of the “red protests” that are now congesting the streets of Bangkok, is only the most prominent example.

眼下正堵塞曼谷各条街道的“红衫军”的使者，逃外的总理他信•西那瓦只是他们中最显著的一个例子。