Use Of Amplifiers At Red Shirt Rally Banned By CRES

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RED SHIRTS

Use of amplifiers at rally banned by CRES

By THE NATION

Red-shirt protesters will be prohibited from using amplifiers this weekend as they hold a rally to mark the fourth anniversary of the 2006 coup, the authorities said yesterday.

The ban on amplifiers was added to an earlier order from the Centre for the Resolution of the Emergency Situation (CRES) on public gatherings in provinces that are under the state of emergency. At present, the emergency decree is in effect in seven provinces, namely Bangkok, Nonthaburi, Samut Prakan, Pathum Thani, Nakhon Ratchasima, Khon Kaen and Udon Thani.

Protesters will only be allowed to use megaphones during the rally, Royal Thai Police spokesman Maj-General Prawut Thawornsiri said, adding that the police force was working closely with the rally leaders, who had accepted the conditions.

No more than 5,000 people are expected to join the rally, the spokesman said, adding that the situation should be under control. He said that the police was aware that the red-shirt movement's rivals - known as the "multi-coloured shirts" - would also be gathering at Rajprasong intersection but did not expect any problems if no laws were broken.

The CRES convened a meeting yesterday, which was chaired by Deputy Prime Minister Suthep Thaugsuban, who is in charge of national security affairs. Once the three-hour-long meeting was over, deputy commander of the Metropolitan Police Bureau Pol Colonel Songpol Watthanachai told reporters that some 3,000 police officers would be deployed to keep maintain and order. Also, more than 100 checkpoints would be set up across the city as part of increased security measures.

He said the initial estimate pointed to some 1,000 people joining the rally.

Army commander-in-chief General Anupong Paochinda, who was among the senior officials attending yesterday's CRES meeting, said he did not think anyone would want to cause violence tomorrow.

"If everyone exercises their constitutional rights properly, there should be no problems," he said.

The red shirts were meant to mark the coup anniversary and the fourth month since the dispersal of their protest yesterday by placing flowers in front of prisons in Bangkok, Chiang Mai, Maha Sarakham, Lampang, Pathum Thani, Phrae, Chiang Rai and Uttaradit.

However, no flowers were placed outside the Chiang Mai Prison, where six red-shirt activists are being detained, and local leaders could not be reached for comment.

CRES spokesman Colonel Sansern Kaewkamnerd said about 1,000 people took part in the flower-laying ceremony in Bangkok yesterday, and between 30 and 100 in each of the other eight provinces. He also thanked participants for not causing any violence.

Opposition Pheu Thai MP and red-shirt leader Jatuporn Promphan said yesterday that his fellow red shirts would lay roses at prisons nationwide every week until all the red-shirt detainees are released.

The campaign is organised to prove that they have not forgotten their comrades in prison, he said. Jatuporn, one of the leaders behind the protest earlier this year, was speaking after taking part in a flower-laying ceremony with other members of the movement in front of a Bangkok prison yesterday.

Red shirts are being detained in 17 prisons nationwide for allegedly violating the emergency law.

Jatuporn said the campaign was not meant to put pressure on the courts considering red-shirt cases, and warned the government to not instigate any violence during red-shirt activities in Chiang Mai on Sunday in order to have something to blame the group for.

In a related development, Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva said state agencies were monitoring the movement of some foreign nationals, but declined to go into detail. He also refused to confirm a remark made by former deputy permanent-secretary of Defence, Admiral Bannawit Kengrien, who said that Cambodian nationals of Vietnamese descent had entered Thailand to incite unrest.

He said such developments only showed that certain groups were still resorting to violence.

-- The Nation 2010-09-18

[Thailand]

Somewhat superfluous to ban amplifiers at a rally that has supposedly been banned, but is going ahead nevertheless!

TIT

[hyperdimension]

The loudspeakers were huge at previous rallies, and I have wondered whether Chulalongkorn hospital patients' health conditions worsened due to the noise pollution that they had to endure.

Opposition Pheu Thai MP and red-shirt leader Jatuporn Promphan said yesterday that his fellow red shirts would lay roses at prisons nationwide every week until all the red-shirt detainees are released.

More high and mighty nonsense from this imbecile. They may be placing flowers until his friends' sentences are over, which could be until they die.

warned the government to not instigate any violence during red-shirt activities in Chiang Mai on Sunday in order to have something to blame the group for.

So he is "warning" the government to not do what the UDD leaders themselves did earlier this year - instigate violence from the government then blame them 100% for deaths and injuries.

The UDD have had a habit of accusing the government of doing what they themselves have done.

[dru2]

Opposition Pheu Thai MP and red-shirt leader Jatuporn Promphan said yesterday that his fellow red shirts would lay roses at prisons nationwide every week until all the red-shirt detainees are released.

The vile Jatuporn should, of course, be joining them inside. And the sooner the better.

Edited September 18, 2010 by dru2

[Buchholz]

The loudspeakers were huge at previous rallies, and I have wondered whether Chulalongkorn hospital patients' health conditions worsened due to the noise pollution that they had to endure.

That's a well-proven medical fact that noise stress impedes healing.

It's a very reasonable qualifier to the protesters to keep it down to a dull roar.

[rubl]

Opposition Pheu Thai MP and red-shirt leader Jatuporn Promphan said yesterday that his fellow red shirts would lay roses at prisons nationwide every week until all the red-shirt detainees are released.

The campaign is organised to prove that they have not forgotten their comrades in prison, he said. Jatuporn, one of the leaders behind the protest earlier this year, was speaking after taking part in a flower-laying ceremony with other members of the movement in front of a Bangkok prison yesterday.

Weekly red roses, only to show the red inmates are not forgotten. Does this mean the few hundred red-shirts incarcerated upcountry will soon get help? Till now the only indication was silence, no lawyers, no money, no nothing. Forgotten pawns in the game of the rich.

Forgot to add: K. Jatuporn will not participate it seems. Probably other things to do. MP's are busy people, you know

Edited September 18, 2010 by rubl

[siampolee]

Indeed Rudi makes a good point, roses are cheap, however financial aid and legal services to the Red Shirt inmates in prison are indeed conspicuous by their absence.

The Red Shirt inmates and those other folk who had their I.D. cards taken and who are still awaiting the financial rewards they were promised for joining the last lot of activities carried out by the Red Shirts

Throw away little people, sacrificed on the altar of a power lust and unbridled greed movement for money in the quest by Thaksin and his acolytes pursuit of power so as to be able to expand their corrupt self enriching antics even further.

Edited September 18, 2010 by siampolee

[Buchholz]

Opposition Pheu Thai MP and red-shirt leader Jatuporn Promphan said yesterday that his fellow red shirts would lay roses at prisons nationwide every week until all the red-shirt detainees are released.

The campaign is organised to prove that they have not forgotten their comrades in prison, he said. Jatuporn, one of the leaders behind the protest earlier this year, was speaking after taking part in a flower-laying ceremony with other members of the movement in front of a Bangkok prison yesterday.

Yesterday's photo of Jatuporn's burgeoning waistline is a testament to his not being in prison

[asiawatcher]

"However, no flowers were placed outside the Chiang Mai Prison, where six red-shirt activists are being detained, and local leaders could not be reached for comment."

"The campaign is organised to prove that they have not forgotten their comrades in prison..."

[Gonzo the Face]

Red-shirt protesters will be prohibited from using amplifiers this weekend as they hold a rally to mark the fourth anniversary of the 2006 coup, the authorities said yesterday.

The above was clipped as the first paragraph of this news clipping thread.

Less than 2 minutes ago an amplified sound truck just sped down my street in Chiang Mai, flying all red banners and blasting away the sound.... Womans voice and the truck was going faster than normal traffic would normally go.

Interesting

Maybe welcoming the group coming up from Bangkok..... or maybe interpretint the rules on amplified sound to be only at the rally itself and not for encourageing others to come out

Edited September 18, 2010 by Gonzo the Face

[bendejo]

What are they going to do about it, send in the police?

[whybother]

Red-shirt protesters will be prohibited from using amplifiers this weekend as they hold a rally to mark the fourth anniversary of the 2006 coup, the authorities said yesterday.

The above was clipped as the first paragraph of this news clipping thread.

Less than 2 minutes ago an amplified sound truck just sped down my street in Chiang Mai, flying all red banners and blasting away the sound.... Womans voice and the truck was going faster than normal traffic would normally go.

Interesting

Maybe welcoming the group coming up from Bangkok..... or maybe interpretint the rules on amplified sound to be only at the rally itself and not for encourageing others to come out

The amplifier ban was added to the gathering ban, so I assume it only applies where the SOE is force.

[whybother]

double post

Edited September 18, 2010 by whybother

[oceano]

Is off topic, but thaivisa stop post news from 16:49 today...never happen...someone know why?

Thanks

[GeorgeO]

Indeed Rudi makes a good point, roses are cheap, however financial aid and legal services to the Red Shirt inmates in prison are indeed conspicuous by their absence.

The Red Shirt inmates and those other folk who had their I.D. cards taken and who are still awaiting the financial rewards they were promised for joining the last lot of activities carried out by the Red Shirts

Throw away little people, sacrificed on the altar of a power lust and unbridled greed movement for money in the quest by Thaksin and his acolytes pursuit of power so as to be able to expand their corrupt self enriching antics even further.

Providing help to the pawns that they have used for their cause would be unseen by the masses. The "supportive" gesture of laying flowers makes headline news, and is also much cheaper.

I would dearly like to see some degree of sanity washing over these red shirt pawns, and their wrath being brought to bear on these imbeciles who have guided them down this dangerous path over the years.