A public opinion survey conducted after the coup showed that most people in Bangkok supported the latest military intervention. Nevertheless, the coup was opposed by some civil groups, university students and scholars. A handful of protesters gathered around Bangkok’s landmarks to resist the junta’s rule. Meanwhile, public protests were also held inside two major Thai university campuses, Chulalongkorn University and Thammasat University. Most of the anti-coup protest activities were peaceful and sporadic. In the meantime, Thaksin’s supporters, who live mostly in provincial areas in the north and north-eastern parts of Thailand together with the urban lower class in Bangkok, formed a political pressure group, the United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD), commonly known as the red shirts. The group’s objective was to fight against the military junta, the Thai traditional elites and the PAD movement. The red shirts strongly believed that the yellow shirts supported the removal of the Thaksin government. During the military rule in 2006-2007, the UDD organized sporadic anti-coup protest activities and conducted the counter-demonstration against PAD in the following years.