Thai beauty queen steps down over 'execute red shirts' comment


  • World
  • Monday, 09 Jun 2014

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Miss Universe Thailand renounced her title on Monday over remarks she made on social media including one that "red shirt" activists, supporters of ousted prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra, should all be executed.

Last month's military coup was the latest convulsion in a decade-long conflict between the Bangkok-based royalist establishment and the rural-based supporters of Yingluck and her brother, former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra.

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