Disqualified Red Shirt Leader Jatuporn Smells A Conspiracy

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I pointed out 2 major systematic failures of the police to perform their duty, sympathetic or not, they should do they are paid to do. A senior police officer getting on a red shirt truck saying the police are red shirts too is startling, especially as it happened directly after after the police allowed the red shirts to occupy rajaprasong. If you really think that this is not worth investigating then you need your head examined, and I mean it, and it is certainly not a fact that the police did their jobs, its just your rather bizarre opinion.

Personally, I believe the police played a major part in ensuring the outcome was as bloody as it was, whether that is true or not, I dont know.

Do you differentiate between the rank and file reds and their leaders? I do, as it was the grass-root reds that died and were maimed, miraculously none of the red leaders suffered as much as a scratch; worth looking into how that happened too.

Yes, if dozens died and 100s of people were injured after months long occupation interpersed with bombings and random deaths along with significant fires throughout the city and the country, it requires the most careful investigation of the circumstances surrounding the killings and the events leading up to it , to say otherwise is just stupid; there is no other way to put it.

I agree that good, thorough (re: honest) investigations would be excellent. We are coming up on 2 years after the events...

That it got to the stage that the army had to be used to disperse the protesters is not only worth investigating; it defies belief, I suspect hat collusion between the elite factions of the red shirts and elements in the police and army ensured that this was the only outcome allowed. The army was the one that ended up killing them, but it doesn't mean that they have the sole respnsibility.

I am actually very disapppointed that Abhisit did not call an election is November 2010, this means that either he did not feel a moral obligation to do so or is too weak to ensure that it happened, either way he is not up to the job or not worth supporting IMO.

Secondly the fact that there were elections last year and the transition was relatively smooth and orderly shows the red shirt leaders were either dunderheads, who should be shot for their stupidity, or to be malicious ruthless politically calculating murderers when they refused the offer of Abhisits compromise, when the whole situation could have finsihed without bloodshed.

93 died and 1000s injured and elections were called a year later, what was the point?

The last line is a good question.

As for the police thing at the start, I haven't looked at that in detail, but my understanding is that by invoking the Internal Security Act, ISA, from March 10-23rd, this put the military in charge and seems to indicate that Abhisit planned to use the military from the start. I know people love to hate the police and I have no desire to delve any deeper into it myself, so I'll leave it at that.

I dont know the answer to the question, but I do know what it bought: a 6 month delay in having elections.