Watermelon Soldiers - Schott's Vocab Blog - NYTimes.com
Thai soldiers sympathetic to the anti-governmental "red shirts".
Commenting on the continuing protests of red shirts in Thailand, Wassana Nanuam wrote in the Bangkok Post:
Among the rapid expansion of this glossary born political protracted conflicts, watermelon army "expression" or soldier of the watermelon is one of the most eye-catching.This means soldiers who may be wearing a green uniform, but are actually rooting for the Red Shirts: green and red on the inside to the outside, just like a watermelon.
According Nanuam, the red shirts were eager to know the factor of the watermelon, "saying it shows that senior commanders of the army the only government support.
[Thai army chief] Gen Anupong has admitted that there are indeed soldiers of the watermelon, but he could not estimate their numbers."No matter what color is your heart or what you subscribe to the doctrine, you do your duty as a soldier when you're deployed. Do not put color in your heart in your duty. Keep in mind that a soldier should not have color. We serve the country and the king, "said General Anupong.
Nanuam noted that some soldiers are suspected of watermelon have disclosed information to the red shirt, that senior officers would like to end:
Even if the army tried to emphasize the need for soldiers to be professional and clear in their exercise of their functions by inventing a new term - soldier Mango "," green thing inside and outside ( greens popular variety, of course) - they have been unable to stem the popularity of the trend of the watermelon....
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