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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Weekend Edition Australia China India Indonesia Japan Malaysia Philippines Thailand Vietnam Anger festers in politically divided Thailand AFP - Tuesday, December 28 Send IM Story Print Anger festers in politically divided Thailand CHIANG MAI, Thailand (AFP) - – Samai Wongsuwan left home a few months after suffering a gunshot wound during opposition protests in Bangkok, telling his wife he would not return until Thailand had a new government. She never heard from him again. Samai's badly burnt remains were found at the scene of a blast at an apartment complex near the capital in which three other people were also killed in October. His wife Buakam Muangma does not believe her husband -- who the authorities say was renting the room where the blast is thought to have been accidentally sparked by a bomb-maker -- was capable of making an explosive device. But she said he changed after joining the two-month anti-government Red Shirt rally which ended in May, leaving more than 90 people dead and nearly 1,900 injured in a series of street clashes between troops and demonstrators. "He saw the soldiers shooting people so he came back with a feeling of hatred for the military," the 44-year-old told AFP sadly as she clutched a portrait of her husband at their modest home in Chiang Mai. The unrest was the worst political violence in the kingdom for decades and fuelled concerns over a widening split in Thai society, particularly between the rural poor and the urban elite. While there has been a lull in unrest in recent weeks, the fear is that simmering tensions might explode into fresh violence in 2011. "The Reds are running amok because they have been disenfranchised and alienated," said Thitinan Pongsudhirak, a professor of political science at Bangkok's Chulalongkorn University. "Suppressing without talking will only lead to more festering and disenchantment which can galvanise into a genuine people's uprising." Government spokesman Panitan Wattanayagorn, however, said the country was returning to "normal law" after the recent end to a state of emergency and switch to a more moderate security decree. He said more suspects who had been detained under the emergency powers were expected to be released. "With the lifting of the emergency decree there will be less and less censorship," he told AFP. The apartment explosion, which remains under investigation by intelligence services, followed a series of smaller grenade blasts in the wake of a deadly government crackdown on the Reds' sprawling base in the heart of Bangkok. Most of the movement's leaders are in jail on terrorism charges or on the run, but the group appears to be regaining momentum with plans to hold meetings twice a month. A recent Bangkok rally attracted around 10,000 people. Senior figures have warned of the need for strong leadership to avoid militancy. Retired microbiology lecturer Thida Thavornseth, the new acting chairwoman of the group -- officially called the United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD) -- said it was crucial to fill the power vacuum. "If we leave it too long there will develop anarchy... Something ugly could happen," she told AFP in a recent interview. "We want to keep the democracy movement peaceful." Thailand is expected to hold an election next year, a potential flashpoint in a country that has been plagued by political violence since tycoon-turned-premier Thaksin Shinawatra was ousted in 2006, in just one of 18 actual or attempted military coups since 1932. Many Reds support Thaksin for his populist policies while in office, and see current Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva as a puppet for an unelected elite. Abhisit took office in 2008 through a parliamentary vote, after court rulings brought down two successive pro-Thaksin governments in the same year. Paul Chambers, senior research fellow at Heidelberg University in Germany, said campaigning for the next election could potentially see "a lot of violence". "Eventually, some political event may take place... which will cause a political vacuum to occur and Thailand may begin to find itself in the throes of the outset of a low-intensity civil war," he added. A regional police source in northern Thailand, who asked not to be named, said he believed the threat level was low at the moment. But he said there was uncertainty about the future, particularly in light of perceived double standards in recent Thai constitutional court rulings that enabled the ruling Democrats to escape a political ban. "Maybe they are disappointed, maybe they'll get angry," he said of the Reds. In Chiang Mai, Thaksin's home town, Sucha Channam laid out a grizzly display of photographs taken on April 10 -- the day he was shot twice -- as he prepared to go back to the capital for one of the recent peaceful Red rallies. One image showed Samai, who was also wounded that day. The pair went their separate ways after the protest and Sucha stressed that he does not condone violence. "I went to pressure the government to disband with no weapon, nothing. So I do feel angry, but I do not want revenge," he said. 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