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Reporter's notebook: Peaceful rally falls apart in a heartbeat

By Jintamas Saksornchai, Staff Reporter

 

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BANGKOK — Facing thousands of police in a fluid, escalating situation I found myself shoved first by one, then by another, away from the thing they didn’t want reporters to see, let alone film. Shouts, screams, pleas for sympathy were heard. Elderly people who hadn’t anticipated the sudden explosion of violence risked being trampled. Some were on the verge of being badly hurt.

 

It was my third time in the field to cover a political demonstration.

 

Full Story: http://www.khaosodenglish.com/featured/2018/05/24/reporters-notebook-peaceful-rally-falls-apart-in-a-heartbeat/

 
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Jailing them would make them martyrs. That's the last thing the junta, with popularity spiralling, can afford in the election run-up.

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