Thai police use water cannon to tackle protest against PM

[timendres]

17 hours ago, steven100 said:

why ?   you think their opinion that they are worried about these protestors spreading the virus more is ludicrous also ?

You specifically stating that these Thai people are concerned about it "only doing harm to Thailand's image", is the ludicrous aspect of it. The Thai people know what is actually "doing harm to Thailand's image".

[roamer]

It's going to be interesting when the tourists return and get shot, gassed or otherwise injured because they had the effrontery to go shopping or get on the Skytrain. I think most of us accept this isn't just going to go away, trying to predict how it will end brings up so many scenarios. A Berlin Wall moment with so many people on the streets ? I remember a border guard being interviewed years later about why they had not opened fire and his reply was that the order never came because those further up the chain of command feared being held responsible for a massacre and they knew the game was up for East Germany. He went on to say that if the order had come through he and others would have disobeyed it because they were as done with the regime as the protestors.

[internationalism]

on Monday 3 teenage wounded with life ammo, 1 critical.

The amnesty international calls for investigation

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2021/08/thailand-urgent-investigation-needed-after-live-rounds-fired-at-child-protesters/

[internationalism]

"Amid the escalation of confrontation, Pol Lt Col Songsak Thititharawat, a police trainer and former Deputy Superintendent (General Staff Division) of the Phayao Provincial Police said the situation is worrying and the police on the ground are not doing it right."

Short of the standards: A police trainer scrutinizes the violent suppression of protests

https://prachatai.com/english/node/9406

 

[DaveE13]

6 minutes ago, internationalism said:

"Amid the escalation of confrontation, Pol Lt Col Songsak Thititharawat, a police trainer and former Deputy Superintendent (General Staff Division) of the Phayao Provincial Police said the situation is worrying and the police on the ground are not doing it right."

Short of the standards: A police trainer scrutinizes the violent suppression of protests

https://prachatai.com/english/node/9406

 

Great article thanks. 

What he said is correct.

[mahtin]

Used to be yellow shirts versus red shirts.

Now it's just people versus uniforms.

 

[internationalism]

policeman fires 3 shots at close range to the passing motorbike