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Re: Thailand 1 (May 08 - Apr 10)

Postby kennynah » Sun Apr 25, 2010 9:37 pm

1 day old news...

thai PM rejected red shirt demands to call for elections within 60 days...

the protesting continues and looks set to become rowdier ...
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Re: Thailand 1 (May 08 - Apr 10)

Postby winston » Mon Apr 26, 2010 12:45 pm

Thai protesters block police on roads to Bangkok

Thai protesters block roads to capital, vow to continue occupation of key Bangkok sites

THANYARAT DOKSONE
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Apr 26, 2010 00:20 EDT

Thailand's "Red Shirt" protesters have told followers to fight until victory but ditch their signature red shirts so they can go undercover in case of a possible crackdown as more bomb threats Monday rattled the tense Thai capital.

There was no violence in the central Bangkok shopping area where protesters remained camped for a 24th day but an explosion occurred late Sunday near the home of a politician allied to the ruling coalition. The blast in a residential neighborhood injured eight people, police said.

A bomb disposal team rushed early Monday to the city's financial district amid reports of another explosive device outside a hospital at the edge of Silom Road, where five grenade blasts last week left one person dead and more than 80 wounded. It was not immediately clear if it was a false alarm.

Both sides in Thailand's protracted political crisis dug in following a breakdown of negotiations and a televised appearance Sunday by the prime minister that offered no solution to the protracted crisis.

Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva spoke Sunday in a nationally televised interview alongside the army chief, in an apparent effort to dispel persistent rumors that there is a rift between him and the military.

The broadcast came a day after Abhisit rejected a compromise offer by the Red Shirts — who say the current government is illegitimate — dashing hopes for a peaceful end to the standoff.

Red Shirt leaders urged their supporters in provincial areas to confront the security forces being brought in to help crack down on the protests, after an earlier attempt to clear them failed, resulting in deadly clashes.

"We won't go home until we win," a protest leader, Khwanchai Praipana, told supporters.

He said many police and soldiers in the provinces sided with the protesters, and had even asked them to prevent fresh security forces from reaching Bangkok.

"Most police based in the provinces don't want to come deal with the Red Shirts in Bangkok," he said.

More than 1,000 protesters set up a roadblock overnight along a major highway, deflating the tires of 13 police vans and preventing police reinforcements from reaching Bangkok from the northeast province of Udon Thani, the government said.

Another 300 protesters set up roadblocks on the outskirts of the capital Sunday afternoon to stop hundreds of other police from entering the city, police officials said.

Protesters in the Nong Kai province also tried to block police from heading to Bangkok, but the security forces changed their route, the government said.

Thousands of Red Shirts camped Monday along the city's main shopping boulevard heeded a call by protest leaders to change into regular attire so they will not be visible if security forces move to clear the area and send them fleeing into city streets.

The strategy dubbed "Taking Off the Red Shirts" was also to help protesters coming in from rural provinces get past military and police checkpoints aimed at blocking them, one protest leader Kokaew Pikulthong told Thai Rath newspaper.

Clashes in Bangkok have killed at least 26 people and wounded nearly 1,000 since the Red Shirts began occupying Bangkok's commercial center more than a month ago, closing down five-star hotels and shopping malls, paralyzing daily life in the city and costing merchants millions of dollars a day.

A blast late Sunday occurred near the western Bangkok home of Banharn Silapa-archa, chief adviser to the Chart Thai Pattana Party and a former prime minister. It wounded at least eight people, police said.

"The solution process is ongoing but may not please everyone. The government, and not only the military, is preparing to be ready for what would lead to the next level," Abhisit said in a short statement to the interviewer.

He did not specify whether the "next level" meant security forces would move to clear the Red Shirt enclave, but government and military leaders have said that the protesters cannot remain in the heart of Bangkok indefinitely.

Thai army chief Gen. Anupong Paochinda, who sat beside Abhisit, said the crisis must be solved by legal means and denied there were any significant divisions within military ranks.

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Re: Thailand 1 (May 08 - Apr 10)

Postby LenaHuat » Mon Apr 26, 2010 2:17 pm

Adbhisit should discard his suit and don a farmer's hat and T-shirt to speak to these people from Isaan. They are revolutionaries now and there's no stopping them. The Bangkokians must learn to accept this and reach a compromise on sharing both power and state coffers' $$ with them.

I have spent time several times at Udon Thani and Kon Khaen and these people are very organized.
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Re: Thailand 1 (May 08 - Apr 10)

Postby kennynah » Mon Apr 26, 2010 2:19 pm

seriously, in plain simple english... i would like to hear your opinion as to why these red shirts protested orginally?

a) that current PM unconstitutionally usurp political power? hence they not happy?
b) that the farmers and bulk of thais have been maltreated?

what in the world are they rioting about?
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Re: Thailand 1 (May 08 - Apr 10)

Postby Poles » Mon Apr 26, 2010 2:31 pm

LenaHuat wrote:Adbhisit should discard his suit and don a farmer's hat and T-shirt to speak to these people from Isaan. They are revolutionaries now and there's no stopping them. The Bangkokians must learn to accept this and reach a compromise on sharing both power and state coffers' $$ with them.

I have spent time several times at Udon Thani and Kon Khaen and these people are very organized.


before that he must go tanning saloon for a well-done....
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Re: Thailand 1 (May 08 - Apr 10)

Postby LenaHuat » Mon Apr 26, 2010 3:59 pm

Hi Poland :D
I rather that Vejjajiva does not. Skin cancer :!:
He should not be ashamed of his pedigree.
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Re: Thailand 1 (May 08 - Apr 10)

Postby winston » Mon Apr 26, 2010 9:38 pm

Thai king tells judges to help resolve crisis

Thai king speaks out for 1st time in crisis, tells judges to work faithfully to bring peace

Thailand's revered king has spoken out for the first time during a political crisis, telling newly appointed judges that they should perform help restore peace to the country.

In his speech, given Monday at the hospital where he has been for more than seven months, he did not directly address the deadlock between the government and protesters seeking its removal.

The king told the judges that they should set an example by carrying out their duties because it would show that officials are committed to keeping the peace. The government has been accused of failing to keep order when faced with the militant protesters.

THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.


BANGKOK (AP) — Thousands of Thailand's "Red Shirt" protesters shed their signature crimson attire Monday, as their leaders warned they should be prepared to go undercover in the event of a government crackdown on their stronghold in the country's tense capital.

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Associated Press writer Predrag Milic in Podgorica, Montenegro, contributed to this report.

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Re: Thailand 1 (May 08 - Apr 10)

Postby winston » Tue Apr 27, 2010 12:49 pm

Who said that it will be a peacuful demo, that violence will not erupt and the Thais are always friendly to each other ? :roll: :roll:

How different is this from storming the Phuket airport by the Yellow Shirts ?


Protesters disrupt Bangkok elevated trains

Army troops guard Bangkok elevated train stops after protesters overrun downtown station

JOCELYN GECKER
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Apr 27, 2010 00:04 EDT

Protesters broke into an elevated rail station and threw tires on the platform Tuesday in their campaign to force immediate elections, prompting authorities to briefly suspend service and send army troops to guard the train stops.

The four-hour closure coincided with morning rush hour, causing commuter chaos and concern in the tense capital at the sight of hundreds of soldiers armed with automatic weapons guarding stations and scattered along major Bangkok boulevards.

Government spokesman Panitan Wattanayagorn said security forces were deployed to "provide security and safety for the public" at Skytrain stations and on highways leading to Bangkok, after protesters tried to block incoming soldiers and police.

By midmorning, Skytrain service had resumed but fears of more violence intensified.

Overnight, hundreds of protesters tried to block police and soldiers who were driving into Bangkok from the northern suburbs to bolster security forces in the capital. Protesters boarded trucks loaded with barricades and hurled them out, others let air out of the tires of official vehicles.

Before sunrise Tuesday, a group of Red Shirt guards entered the downtown Chidlom station of the Skytrain, which is adjacent to the main protest site, and placed 30 tires on the platform, the Bangkok Mass Transit System said in a statement.

"For passengers safety, the company shut down operations," the statement said, adding that authorities were sent to negotiate with protesters, who agreed to remove the tires. "After a security check, the company resumed services at all stations."

Trains, however, would stop running at 8 p.m. instead of the usual service until midnight, the statement said.

Protesters are demanding that Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva dissolve Parliament and call fresh elections.

The government has repeatedly said it hopes to resolve the political crisis peacefully, despite a breakdown in negotiations, but says it will not allow the protests to go on indefinitely or let the protesters occupy more areas of the capital.

Many Red Shirt supporters around and outside the capital tried Monday to prevent police reinforcements from moving into Bangkok.

In at least six places around the country, Red Shirt supporters scattered nails along roads, set up checkpoints and searched vans and buses for police officers headed to the capital.

Some police heading to Bangkok were forced to return to their bases, while police in the central province of Phitsanulok, impatient after a five-hour standoff with the Red Shirts, broke through a cordon of protesters who hurled rocks and wooden sticks at them, Thai media reported.

Panitan said that some of the troop movement Tuesday was intended to prevent protesters from blocking security forces. He said it was not a crackdown aimed at clearing protesters from the shopping boulevard.

"We are not looking at a major sweep but we are trying to relieve the public and open up certain locations for the public to use and for officers to travel," he said.

"We are trying to make sure that demonstrators do not spread out and try to block major communication links or systems," he said, adding that "Security forces will go to several major highways to make sure highways remain open."

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Re: Thailand 1 (May 08 - Apr 10)

Postby kennynah » Tue Apr 27, 2010 1:32 pm

winston wrote:Who said that it will be a peacuful demo, that violence will not erupt and the Thais are always friendly to each other ? :roll: :roll:



i did...and until now, i like to believe what the world has seen is staged... a movie set for the world.. :lol:
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Re: Thailand 1 (May 08 - Apr 10)

Postby winston » Tue Apr 27, 2010 1:43 pm

Ha Ha. Ok, you are always too complacent unless you have a position riding on the event :P
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