Troops called in to rescue students at Bangkok's Ramkhamhaeng Uni

[kingalfred]

So the education minister turns up there ,not to assist the university but to speak on stage with the likes of Jatuporn and all the other thugs sums up this government .Keep up the protests suthep and the people of thailand . This core rotten group need exorcising from power.

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[Thaddeus]

10.20am: CAPO deputy director Pol Gen Worapong Chiewpreecha says police cannot access the university because the situation is not under control. He says police are trying to arrange BMA buses to get protesters out of the university.

The police were sent there to get the situation under control.

For me, there are three possible explanations.

1, The police sent there are total cowards.

2. The police sent there lacked the ability to get the situation under control.

3. The police sent there had no intention of getting in the way of the red crowd, and were there just for show.

Whatever the reason is, the RTA had to save their <deleted>........ again.

Edited December 2, 2013 by Thaddeus

[Local Drunk]

10.20am: CAPO deputy director Pol Gen Worapong Chiewpreecha says police cannot access the university because the situation is not under control. He says police are trying to arrange BMA buses to get protesters out of the university.

The police were sent there to get the situation under control.

For me, there are three possible explanations.

1, The police sent there are total cowards.

2. The police sent there lacked the ability to get the situation under control.

3. The police sent there had no intention of getting in the way of the red crowd, and were there just for show.

Whatever the reason is, the RTA had to save their <deleted>........ again.

I have a few friends in the RTA and they consider the police "Boy Scouts" with guns.

[JRSoul]

I have a few friends in the RTA and they consider the police "Boy Scouts" with guns.

Your RTA friends are showing a high level of ignorance. how many of the following apply to the RTP:

The Scout Law

1. A Scout is to be trusted.
2. A Scout is loyal.
3. A Scout is friendly and considerate.
4. A Scout belongs to the worldwide family of Scouts.
5. A Scout has courage in all difficulties.
6. A Scout makes good use of time and is careful of possessions and property.
7. A Scout has self-respect and respect for others.

[tingtongteesood]

Not really hard to imagine who were responsible, the reds of course. Wonder if the posters here who defend the red and come down hard on the protestors see that again the reds are the thugs. Though even i must say im dissapointed at the way how some of the anti government protestors act. But at least they are not shooting people.

The government must step down and call for new elections even if the PTP wins they will be severely weakend. It would be much harder for them to seek total dominance without checks and balances and bring dear leader back.

I dont mind them in charge if they were checked and their corruption at least halted a bit.

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Got to ask you a question. Who gave the order to open fire and kill people three years ago? What government does not suport the poor people in Thailand? If you can answer those questions you might understand Thai people in the rural areas.

It was someone in the red shirts side who gave the order to open fire and kill people three years ago. Then a month later after all kinds of mayhem the government decided they needed to bring in soldiers with guns to remove the scourge that had made the country look like a wart on the ass of the planet for the last 2 months plus. Violence was finally met with violence. The governmeent should have done it at least a month sooner than they did....

[Baerboxer]

if the anti-government protesters were red shirts their leader would have already been assassinated like last time...the government is Quick to gun down those representing the poor but not those representing the top...

Has it been proved who assassinated the person you referred to? Who pulled the trigger and who gave the order ?

Could you post the link to the court case please?

Or are you simply imagining that you know?

[Dogmatix]

A lot of southerners attend RU. Add the stereotype of them being hot blooded and its not really surprising that clashes happened.

The student body must be at least 30% Southerners due to the dire shortage of state universities in the South.

[Dogmatix]

Thai social media was commenting that the company of soldiers from the 11th Infantry Regiment, The King's Guard, is currently based in Hua Hin. If true, it would be strange to bring troops from so far afield to deal with an emergency situation.

[DocN]

if the anti-government protesters were red shirts their leader would have already been assassinated like last time...the government is Quick to gun down those representing the poor but not those representing the top...

Has it been proved who assassinated the person you referred to? Who pulled the trigger and who gave the order ?

Could you post the link to the court case please?

Or are you simply imagining that you know?

According to another poster on this very thread it is "common knowledge" that Thaksin ordered the assassination to create a martyr.

I guess, the case is hereby officially solved!

[Emptyset]

Gentiles farmers Northeast scrolling peacefully in Bangkok.

Photo "Le Monde"

Since you've sadly decided to go down this route, let's make this very clear. This is what students were doing to red shirts before the reds later responded themselves:

Empty, do you think those are really students in the upper pic? Look at it closely. Now the real students, whom I'll refer to as children perhaps did attack the buses, but what you seem to imply is that a 'tit for tat" measure is ok. That's the sort of thinking that lead to this escalation and the Red Shirts being at the stadium in the first place.

Not sure, the student group seemed to contain some obviously 'nak leng' types. But RU is an open university and tends to have more mature students so it's actually hard to tell. There were apparently also technical students from another anti-govt group involved - according to RU Rector. I'm not condoning what the reds did. I've condemned it in another thread and I wasn't even going to post these pictures until someone started going down the typical 'red thugs' road. I'll defend their initial response of sending people out with sticks whilst these attacks were ongoing, but not what happened after that.

[Dogmatix]

RU may offer a hope to poor families for its low fees and open door policy, but the author seems to forget it also offers hope to rich families with dull kids, who despite the virtual "no fail" policy, still feel it necessary to cheat in their exams. One Nong Oak, for example.

Completely of track and untrue.

You attended Uni here ? No I bet not

Of course. Plachon's scurrilous allegation is totally unfounded. Khun Phantongtae transferred to Ram from Thammasat, despite acing the entrance exam and breezing through all exams and coursework, after finding the the TU students a snooty bunch and found Ram students much more akin to his strong egalitarian priniciples. Also the less aggressive speed bumps there were more friendly to his Porsche. In one of his final exams at Ram he had the misfortune to be found by a proctor in possession of a paper indicating answers to exam questions. This matter was cleared up with the rector on a total amicable basis after Phantongtae explained that it was a totally understandable honest mistake, since the crib sheet in fact referenced a different exam paper.

[Spare]

one clip of the taxi incident ( taxi said to be taking a red shirt supporter to the rally). terrifying

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pFEMkltMhM

I have view the clip. I suspect too many Photoshop and cut and paste. It is just a clip altered to make the Red looks good, and students looks bad. Nothing is further than the truth.

[outsider]

Oh? So it's 'DAAD' now, and no longer UDD (United Front for Dictatorship Against Democracy)? Well I guess DAAD works too... Dictatorial Alliance against Democracy (DAAD). And then we have PDRC (People's Democratic Reform Committee)... so is it correct that all demonstrating factions are united under one 'party' now? At the rate things are going, Thai politics is going to read like a car brochure, what with all the acronyms... ABS, EBD, TCS, SRS, EPS, DOHC, EFI...

[Dogmatix]

Oh? So it's 'DAAD' now, and no longer UDD (United Front for Dictatorship Against Democracy)? Well I guess DAAD works too... Dictatorial Alliance against Democracy (DAAD). And then we have PDRC (People's Democratic Reform Committee)... so is it correct that all demonstrating factions are united under one 'party' now? At the rate things are going, Thai politics is going to read like a car brochure, what with all the acronyms... ABS, EBD, TCS, SRS, EPS, DOHC, EFI...

UDD and DAAD both still go under the same name in Thai. How it is referred to in English media is misleading but irrelevant to the situation.

[Sheryl]

A post baiting another poster has been removed. Either discuss civilly without personal attacks., or be silent.

[Dogmatix]

Thai social media report that one of the dead red shirts was wearing a black shirt in response to instructions from Jatuporn for small groups to don black shirts and cause mayhem with the students. They say it was a case of mistaken identity and red shirt guards shot him thinking he was an Anti-Thaksinista. The truth may never be known.

Edited December 2, 2013 by Dogmatix

[Artisi]

10.20am: CAPO deputy director Pol Gen Worapong Chiewpreecha says police cannot access the university because the situation is not under control. He says police are trying to arrange BMA buses to get protesters out of the university.

The police were sent there to get the situation under control.

For me, there are three possible explanations.

1, The police sent there are total cowards.

2. The police sent there lacked the ability to get the situation under control.

3. The police sent there had no intention of getting in the way of the red crowd, and were there just for show.

Whatever the reason is, the RTA had to save their <deleted>........ again.

I have a few friends in the RTA and they consider the police "Boy Scouts" with guns.

Didn't realise that boy scouts spend their days collecting tea money along with their many other extra-curricula activities.

[mikemac]

Since you've sadly decided to go down this route, let's make this very clear. This is what students were doing to red shirts before the reds later responded themselves:

If that is a student roughing up that redshirt then he must be the oldest student in Thailand ! He gets him in a headlock and pulls his hair and the redshirts respond with live rounds, that seems about right.

Nothing you could post will ever compare to what Thaksin and his army of paid terrorists did to the country in 2010.

[Nickymaster]

So the education minister turns up there ,not to assist the university but to speak on stage with the likes of Jatuporn and all the other thugs sums up this government .Keep up the protests suthep and the people of thailand . This core rotten group need exorcising from power.

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Yes. The Interior Minister (the one in charge of the Police) was also on the Red stage when the police told the RU president Wutisak Lapcharoensap it was not convenient for them to rescue the students.

[rucus7]

I think I finally understand, the word elite should be substituted for educated. Since it is the Thai elite that are stirring up all this political strife.

[Nickymaster]

I think I finally understand, the word elite should be substituted for educated. Since it is the Thai elite that are stirring up all this political strife.

I think you are right but it is the opposite.

[Nickymaster]

So the education minister turns up there ,not to assist the university but to speak on stage with the likes of Jatuporn and all the other thugs sums up this government .Keep up the protests suthep and the people of thailand . This core rotten group need exorcising from power.

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Yes. The Interior Minister (the one in charge of the Police) was also on the Red stage when the police told the RU president Wutisak Lapcharoensap it was not convenient for them to rescue the students.

Ramkhamhaeng rector said 3 students were killed in political violence. He criticised police passiveness Saturday night RT

The Nation

[Local Drunk]

My source in the RTA: Police claim to have seen a sniper on or in one of the buildings at the university and were afraid to move in. RTA was called in with a special forces team to take out the sniper on sight and regular army to evacuate the students. RTA source says no sniper was found.

I hope I've been as vague as I can be on this one. There are some very bad people out there.

[Local Drunk]

My source in the RTA: Police claim to have seen a sniper on or in one of the buildings at the university and were afraid to move in. RTA was called in with a special forces team to take out the sniper on sight and regular army to evacuate the students. RTA source says no sniper was found.

I hope I've been as vague as I can be on this one. There are some very bad people out there.

I was also told that the Police will not hesitate to use live rounds against protesters and that I should stay away from the protest sites.

Take it for what it's worth.

Cheers, LD