Thai Government Hangs By A Thread

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tweets...

tulsa: Jatuporn screams at PhanFa "No more negotiation". Body was shown to protesters now , INN reports.

tulsa: Urgent: Dead include one Japanese REuter reporter, shot in the chest.

jonas kipps: #Bangkok #redshirts funded by #thaksin through orchestrated lies and provocation led to many injuries and casualties. Inform yourself please

tulsa: Huroyuki Muramoto is the name of the killed Japanese reporter.

bkk pundit: ThaiPBS: 5 ppl killed; 4 shot and one clubbed to death

smartbrain: nation: 240 injured across 40 hospitals around Bangkok. 4 dead at BKK Central 4 red 1 media (reuters Hiroyuki shot in chest)

[Thai at Heart]

Automatic rifles being paraded on stage

[LevelHead]

http://twitter.com/journotopia

French photographer tells me she saw troops open fire on medics trying to evacuate wounded.

14 minutes ago via mobile web Shooting continues even as ambulances arrive to take away the injured.

28 minutes ago via mobile web Colleague says he saw one man shot in the groin. The tarmac around Democracy Monument spattered with blood.

29 minutes ago via mobile web The Royal Thai Army is killing its people. Again.

31 minutes ago via mobile web Eyewitness reports of other injuries. Soldier dead or near dead. Man with brain blown out.

32 minutes ago via mobile web People are dying now. Just saw a red shirt, looking very dead, taken away in ambulance.

33 minutes ago via mobile web Cars and buildings in Khao San riddled with bullet holes.

39 minutes ago via mobile web Barricades going up at Khao San. Reds preparing for soldiers' return. Several pools of blood on road.

40 minutes ago via mobile web Don't listen to bland Thai govt reassuarances. Khao San is a dangerous place. I've seen 2 tourists with injuries.

about 1 hour ago via mobile web Khao San lis shuttered up, red shirts everywhere. It looks like a warzone.

about 1 hour ago via mobile web Streets littered with broken cars, bricks, other projectiles. Soldiers have retreated.

about 1 hour ago via mobile web Pitched battles in streets around Khao San. Tourists ducking for cover. A red shirt with an AK47.

about 1 hour ago via mobile web A Thai journalist carried out, bleeding.

about 1 hour ago via mobile web Massive explosions, gunfire around Khao San.

about 1 hour ago via mobile web Scenes of chaos at Khao San. Tourists tell me they saw horrific inuries, an old man with an eye hanging out.

about 1 hour ago via mobile web Walked past Govt House. 100s more soldiers, some heavily armed, facing down 500 or so reds.

[4223rhodes]

I agree --- this needs to stop ----

The Reds need to get off the street. Their leaders need to be arrested for sedition and inciting insurrection. Their speech from the red stage was certainly recorded and it is clear. There is no valid defense for their actions.

The police and army may have to move in and that will be awful but it needs to end NOW.

If the Army stands down and Abhisit leaves the country, things will calm down in a few days. Obviously, bringing in the Army was wrong. Those who made the decision must accept the consequences.

[yoshiwara]

One post deleted. Let's express out feelings about the post, not the poster--especially if the view is very negative.

I'm not telling you how to do your job, but these hate mongers need culling.

Stay calm.

Be patient.

The reds have shown their true face as we knew they eventually would.

It is a tragedy that Thaksin is just using them as cannon fodder.

The forum red cheerleaders are just a sideshow.

[monkfish]

Television news reporting two army soldiers killed (shot)

I've just seen pictures of Red shirts with their faces hanging off in Pantip

how did they hang their faces off?

Do you want to see the pictures it may explain it more

I have a link but not sure its allowed

[TheItaliann]

Something tells me Abhisit will have a hard time sleeping at night. Very terrible.

[animatic]

Jatuporn now parading a red shirt corpse on stage and winding up the crowd. This is a true atrocity. Absolutely barbaric.

As far as I can see, they are not showing any images of the many soldiers wounded on the ground from their attack.

Absolutely disgusting behaviour if true.

They have a corpse on stage? Sick sad <deleted>!

Rick

Buddhist acts... not hardly. Respect for the dead, not even slightly.

They were itching to put on a disgusting display, and now they are hard at it.

[NanLaew]

Channel 9 on live video now showing reds throwing molotov cocktails into buildings near Phan Fa and setting then on fire.

They are ordinary shophouses. The living and working places of ordinary working people. What sort of a "people's revolution" is this?

Lawks! You would have been a scream in Spain!

[SomTumTiger]

Clearing out the Reds is sad, because there are a lot of innocent, well meaning people in that group. But those innocent people are being used as human shields for some of the biggest scumbags Thailand has on offer. Its a sad state of affairs, but the government and military have reacted with measure and calm, even after the miltary has been attached with lethal weapons repeated.

The leaders of the Reds, must be put in jail. This movment can find new leaders, if it is truly a "movement of the people".

[yoshiwara]

I log off now, disgusted by the people on here who support government controlled violence against their own people.

When you attack, people will defend.

Who attacked who ? Who started this ?

Sleep well Abhisit and Suthep, the blood is on your hands.

Stop the violence and stop the killing !!

What a joke.

The reds launch attacks and here we have someone oh so innocently asking who started this.

No wonder you are logging off.

Nothing sensible to say.

[saintofsilence]

I agree --- this needs to stop ----

The Reds need to get off the street. Their leaders need to be arrested for sedition and inciting insurrection. Their speech from the red stage was certainly recorded and it is clear. There is no valid defense for their actions.

The police and army may have to move in and that will be awful but it needs to end NOW.

If the Army stands down and Abhisit leaves the country, things will calm down in a few days. Obviously, bringing in the Army was wrong. Those who made the decision must accept the consequences.

So in your opinion the army should have let reds run rampant ?

[4223rhodes]

The reports from non-government sources are very different than those in the controlled media. I'm afraid that those outside Thailand will get accurate news faster than those of us within Thailand.

[jdinasia]

Gen Prayuth insists red shirts must leave

This is the guy that is the top of the short list to be the next Army chief .....

[timekeeper]

Something tells me Abhisit will have a hard time sleeping at night. Very terrible.

i wouldn't.....

[Thai at Heart]

Red TV now on 2 channels on cable.......

I saw that someone posted that Anupong has ordered the army to back off.

Confirmation anyone?

[Scott]

More posts deleted.

[yoshiwara]

Something tells me Abhisit will have a hard time sleeping at night. Very terrible.

Probably true.

While at the same time the red leaders are cavorting around on stage with their corpses.

Dignity on one side.

Incitement on the other.

yes, terrible.

[Chaimai]

I log off now, disgusted by the people on here who support government controlled violence against their own people.

When you attack, people will defend.

Who attacked who ? Who started this ?

Sleep well Abhisit and Suthep, the blood is on your hands.

Stop the violence and stop the killing !!

Sleep well, drama queen.

The reds (and their 'peaceful' protest) were given every chance to withdraw gracefully - they secured good progress in their campaign to have the rural voice heard.

Regrettably, it appears that was not the entire agenda.

Tam dee, dai dee. Reap what you sow - there are many cliches and hackneyed phrases flying around.

Thai rak Thai ????? <deleted> !

I hope the red leadership are proud of what they have achieved. The blood is on their hands - not Abhisit's.

[johncitizen]

www.facebook.com/UDDThailand

[yoshiwara]

Once again the Thai military is in the street spilling the blood of its own people. Sad.

The red attack on the troops of course was just a space invader game.

[naughtybadfurrimunki]

If ever there was proof needed that some of the most unsavoury westerners in the world are resident in this country then this thread is it.

[Netfan]

I understand the excitation of some of you with the conflict on-going. However, things are taking a bad orientation for all sides and may become uncontrollable.

This entire story one way or the other will finish in negotiation and compromises. The military gesticulations have no more object than positioning each other in favourable position for the discussions.

I think as an experienced man, we have to call everybody to the restraint and to cool down: losses of lives must be avoided. Lives are invaluable

Good point . You say "let soften them a bit" then negociate . Makes sense .

Definitely we must remain measured , and all will if we dont hear all the time

the violent anti-red rethoric of the last 3 weeks

What a load of old croc.

The reds are going all out with guns and petrol bombs and you are being Mr Reasonable.

Thaksin apologist trying on yet another set of clothes.

Yes- these are not poor farmers out there now for the Reds. These are the hard core thugs. The Red leaders have been pushing for this for months. The ending is just not what they promised Thaksin. Wonder if they will be cut off for failing?

[Tingnongnoi]

Something tells me Abhisit will have a hard time sleeping at night. Very terrible.

there is quite a few that should have a harder time sleeping than him, staring with one in Dubai

[SiriusBlack1]

By the way, the reporter's name is Hiroyuki Muramoto. It was spelled wrong in the local report.

Condolences to his family.

[SomTumTiger]

The TV reds are having as bad a day as their real live counterparts, it seems. But both are spewing the same invective, lies, and vitrol, that give them common ground.

[Sarpedon]

I log off now, disgusted by the people on here who support government controlled violence against their own people.

When you attack, people will defend.

Who attacked who ? Who started this ?

Sleep well Abhisit and Suthep, the blood is on your hands.

Stop the violence and stop the killing !!

Sleep well, drama queen.

The reds (and their 'peaceful' protest) were given every chance to withdraw gracefully - they secured good progress in their campaign to have the rural voice heard.

Regrettably, it appears that was not the entire agenda.

Tam dee, dai dee. Reap what you sow - there are many cliches and hackneyed phrases flying around.

Thai rak Thai ????? <deleted> !

I hope the red leadership are proud of what they have achieved. The blood is on their hands - not Abhisit's.

Seems like the agenda was to push and push till conflict was inevitable. Not willing to negotiate at all when given the chance. To parade corpses on stage to incite more hatred and more violence is totally inexcusable. Blood is clearly on the hands of the red leaders who are up on stage.

[whiterussian]

Includes a dead Reuters Japanese journalist, Huroyuki Muramoto, shot in the chest. Rubber bullets do not do this.

took a lesson from the Burmese junta?

[Insight]

Something tells me Abhisit will have a hard time sleeping at night. Very terrible.

there is quite a few that should have a harder time sleeping than him, staring with one in Dubai

Should, but probably doesn't...

[Tingnongnoi]

I log off now, disgusted by the people on here who support government controlled violence against their own people.

When you attack, people will defend.

Who attacked who ? Who started this ?

Sleep well Abhisit and Suthep, the blood is on your hands.

Stop the violence and stop the killing !!

Sleep well, drama queen.

The reds (and their 'peaceful' protest) were given every chance to withdraw gracefully - they secured good progress in their campaign to have the rural voice heard.

Regrettably, it appears that was not the entire agenda.

Tam dee, dai dee. Reap what you sow - there are many cliches and hackneyed phrases flying around.

Thai rak Thai ????? <deleted> !

I hope the red leadership are proud of what they have achieved. The blood is on their hands - not Abhisit's.

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