Did It Surprise You That So Many People Take to the Streets?

Soi: I was surprised there were other earlier demonstrations, and that's why ahuabang fell the party general secretary. It did surprise me because, yes, you could feel there was some disaffection,. There was inflation an a few things and corrupt but once that snowball got rolling, it was very hard to stop. And we had people like fanglegerphoning in from bay jing at night to tell us what was going on. We all jumped on planes and went back.