This site gives a decent introductory rundown on the two factions, although since it was written in FEB 2009, it doesn't contain salient information about what occurred during the last 2 years:
http://www.thaizer.com/politics/who-...nd-red-shirts/
This BBC link cursorily covers the crackdown on the Red Shirts in Bangkok, during which several people were killed:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-13294268
This is a decent article by the Independent which was written after the Bangkok crackdown:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...e-2057293.html
This is a pretty good article on the current state of affairs in Thailand and the Red/Yellow camps:
http://www.project-syndicate.org/com...glish#comments
No matter what, I still love spending time in the Kingdom...