Red Shirts In Attempt To Take Over Army Checkpoint In Mae Hong Son

[ChiangMaiMail]

Red shirts in attempt to take over Army checkpoint in Mae Hong Son

Khajohn Boonpath

More than 10 members of the Red Shirt group in Mae Hong Son attempted to seize the Phabong checkpoint in Mae Hong Son’s Muang district on April 25 in an effort to block military and police personnel from travelling to Bangkok to reinforce authorities there.

Deputy Commander Somjet Pakdeebandit negotiates with the Red Shirts at the checkpoint in Mae Hong Son.

The 35 armed military and police officers in charge of the checkpoint refused to allow them to take over. Col Somjet Pakdeebandit, Deputy Commander of the 7th Infantry Regiment negotiated with the group for an hour after which the Red Shirts left the checkpoint.

The Deputy Commander said, “We could not let the red shirt group close or block the road, nor besiege the government offices, and buildings as per the orders of the Mae Hong Son Governor, Kamthorn Thawornsathit, who has adopted the government policy on dealing with the political situation.”

Red Shirt leader, Payon Sarawat said that they had wanted to block military forces, “but this time, we didn’t have enough people so we left."

http://chiangmai-mail.com/current/news.shtml#hd8

-- Chiang Mai Mail 2010/05/04

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[Jingthing]

Didn't they get the memo about peace breaking out? These reds are like the Keystone cops sometimes.

[Xangsamhua]

Oh, what a lovely war!

[Gigabyte]

Didn't they get the memo about peace breaking out? These reds are like the Keystone cops sometimes.

The story says "on April 25". It seems that it takes a long time for Chiang Mai news to reach the World...

[Jingthing]

Never mind.