The most popular searches for people on the Internet in Thailand last year were for "Seh Daeng" with over 700,000 hits, according to TrueHits.
"Seh Daeng" (MajGeneral Khattiya Sawasdiphol, was a renegade General in the Thai military and was fatally shot during the redshirt rally on May 13th 2010.
General Khattiya has been called a terrorist by Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, who named him as the chief obstacle to a compromise plan to end the protesters' sit-in in return for an early election in November. Commanding his own paramilitary force of former Rangers, General Khattiya was suspended without pay from the armed forces. A special committee was considering whether to strip him of his rank.
He was shot in the head while giving an interview to a foreign reporter behind the Redshirt Bangkok barricades. Some people believe that he was assassinated by a pro Government sniper and others believe that he was taken out by his own people. I guess that we will never know, but I am amazed how popular the guy has become following his passing.
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