Red shirt guards seize farmers' muster point on Friendship Highway

[phutoie2]

why are the police not shifting these redshirt thugs who are not demonstrating but gathering for confrontation - I'd like to see the state of their underwear if the farmers decided to carry on with their usual protest location

Sounds like the UDD are doing the Police's job for them, keeping an important road junction open to the public.

[casualbiker]

why are the police not shifting these redshirt thugs who are not demonstrating but gathering for confrontation - I'd like to see the state of their underwear if the farmers decided to carry on with their usual protest location

Sounds like the UDD are doing the Police's job for them, keeping an important road junction open to the public.

Who honestly knows what's going on .. This piece is crap reporting! No pictures. No info.

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[LadPhrao1234]

why are the police not shifting these redshirt thugs who are not demonstrating but gathering for confrontation - I'd like to see the state of their underwear if the farmers decided to carry on with their usual protest location

Sounds like the UDD are doing the Police's job for them, keeping an important road junction open to the public.

Who honestly knows what's going on .. This piece is crap reporting! No pictures. No info.

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Strange, this has rarely been an obstacle for Suthep supports in the past. Their ability to invert logic and facts and make stuff up fills the pages with slanderous venom here. Probably just lunch time at primary school.

[pmugghc]

Found this picture on the web from the place where the red shirts took control. They look like Khmer Rouge to me. Same method of operation.

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[LadPhrao1234]

Found this picture on the web from the place where the red shirts took control. They look like Khmer Rouge to me. Same method of operation.

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Yeah and the UDD group put up banners sending messages such as “Don’t create chaos in this area”, “Democracy is not about road closure by thugs” and “Oppose the road closure in this area”.

Really subversive stuff. You have to hope they're stopped right? I mean they're wading right into the middle of things and gonna mess it up with unreasonable stuff like that.

[rogerdee123]

come on people there must be someone prepared to defend these red guards..must be lunchtime.. or just very picky about the topics they read..

In Europe it's still too early for them.

[Virt]

Would be nice if there were someone in the middle who could bring both sides together.

One who was free of corruption and would do the best for all Thai citizens no matter where they came from or how rich or poor they were.

But i guess that is even a dream in most western countries if not all.

[bkkpro]

Issan Rouge

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[rogerdee123]

This was probably ordered by Thida the 'thug-woman'

[Siripon]

The Khmer Rouge drove people back to the land, that's not going to happen here with over 1 million farmers still unpaid for their rice.

1 million farmers equals 4 or 5 million people( assuming 5 members per family), who are disillusioned with this government. The red shirts had better be careful, they're in danger of becoming irrelevant,

[gemini81]

Red democracy! We can rally and protest but you can't!

Poor farmers are not getting paid and instead of helping them, these scum are threatening them.

The name is such an oxymoron (comprised of morons): red (communist) democracy (anti). Please PTP, please further oppress until into servitude- we are the pawns in arms of your fiefdom.

Hail New Cambodia.

[jonclark]

Found this picture on the web from the place where the red shirts took control. They look like Khmer Rouge to me. Same method of operation.

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Hey they're wearing the same shoes as those alleged fake armed PDRC guards / policemen from last weeks deadly and aborted attempt at Pan Fah bridge....and they wore black too.......nah can't be?

Edited February 25, 2014 by jonclark

[ramrod711]

No farmers appeared at the muster point after they learned of the arrival of the red-shirt guards in the area.

One of the posters the red-shirt put up to oppose farmers reads “Democracy..No Hooligans Blockading Highway”, and another reads
“Don not come to make trouble in this area.”

Well, so much for the poor fighting the injustice of the elite. It is the ignorant fighting everyone with a sense of justice. These farmers have been repeatedly lied to, starved and driven to suicide. Their red brothers, who only want democracy, now threaten them with violence. No doubt that the UDD members would cheer loudly if they killed a few hundred of them. In my opinion Nattawut, Jatuporn and the rest of the leaders should be given a last cigarette, and executed.

[MunterHunter]

Found this picture on the web from the place where the red shirts took control. They look like Khmer Rouge to me. Same method of operation.

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Yeah and the UDD group put up banners sending messages such as “Don’t create chaos in this area”, “Democracy is not about road closure by thugs” and “Oppose the road closure in this area”.

Really subversive stuff. You have to hope they're stopped right? I mean they're wading right into the middle of things and gonna mess it up with unreasonable stuff like that.

Democracy at the end of a barrel...

Armed groups baying for violence? Must be red shirt season again...

[MaxLee]

Found this picture on the web from the place where the red shirts took control. They look like Khmer Rouge to me. Same method of operation.

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Yeah and the UDD group put up banners sending messages such as “Don’t create chaos in this area”, “Democracy is not about road closure by thugs” and “Oppose the road closure in this area”.

Really subversive stuff. You have to hope they're stopped right? I mean they're wading right into the middle of things and gonna mess it up with unreasonable stuff like that.

Democracy at the end of a barrel...

Armed groups baying for violence? Must be red shirt season again...

Paid for silencing any critics... AutoDEMOcracy at its true colors

[JesseFrank]

This was probably ordered by Thida the 'thug-woman'

You are prohibited of using the " Thug " word on this site, as it is courtesy of Gerry1011.

Wonder why he isn't active in this thread.

[Crushdepth]

About 30 red-shirt guards in black shirts and some cover their faces with masks erected make-shift tents at Samyaek Ban Wat trisection in Kong district of Nakhon Ratchasima with posters and placards warning farmers to stay away from the area.

Only 30 of them, not so long ago there would have been hundreds.

If they take a stick to farmers they will wish they hadn't.

[ShannonT]

Found this picture on the web from the place where the red shirts took control. They look like Khmer Rouge to me. Same method of operation.

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Hey they're wearing the same shoes as those alleged fake armed PDRC guards / policemen from last weeks deadly and aborted attempt at Pan Fah bridge....and they wore black too.......nah can't be?

Since you know they are the same shoes, can you let us know the brand and name?

Or are you just stirring rumors?

[casualbiker]

Found this picture on the web from the place where the red shirts took control. They look like Khmer Rouge to me. Same method of operation.

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Hey they're wearing the same shoes as those alleged fake armed PDRC guards / policemen from last weeks deadly and aborted attempt at Pan Fah bridge....and they wore black too.......nah can't be?

Since you know they are the same shoes, can you let us know the brand and name?

Or are you just stirring rumors?

Humour fail.... again!

Brand : streakers..

name :the left streaker sneaker is called pingtong and the right is peatong.

OK happy now!

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[SABloke]

They're clearky fake redshirts...

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[trogers]

Farmers - "We want to gather and protest against this government on non-payment over many months for rice pledged. This is democracy!"

Reds - "We are more democratic than you. Shove off!" while waving their war weapons...

Seems Thaksin and his gangs have a new definition for the word "Democracy"...

[webfact]

Korat Redshirts Scare Off Rice Protesters

By Khaosod English

NAKHON RATCHASIMA: -- Redshirts militants in Nakohn Ratchasima province have prevented rice farmers in the region from organising a rally to voice their grievance.

Rice farmers from 20 provinces in northeastern Thailand have previously announced their plan to stage a rally along Mittaparp Road in Korat to demand the rice payment the government has promised them under the controversial rice-pledging scheme.

However, more than 30 "guards" of the United Front of Democracy Against Dicatorship (UDD) arrived at Mittaparp Road in Pimai district this morning and set up several tents on the venue initially marked by the rice protesters as their rally site.

Many of the Redshirts guards wore balaclava and black shirts. Some of the guards proceeded to hang banners with threatening notes to the oncoming farmers. One banner reads "Don′t cause trouble here". Another, "Democracy is not about thugs closing down the roads".

Mr. Nakorn Srivipat, leader of the rice farmers protesters, later called off the rally, citing safety concerns for the demonstrators due to the black-clad UDD guards.

"Our coordinators agreed that we don′t want any confrontation," Mr. Nakorn said, "It might lead to chaos and losses".

He added that the farmers have been instructed to meet at another venue in Chokechai district, where they would discuss further measures to pressure the government.

Source: http://www.khaosod.co.th/en/view_newsonline.php?newsid=TVRNNU16TXhOVFU0TkE9PQ==


-- Khaosod English 2014-02-25

[olddoc]

Sooner the "red v red" conflict takes place the better for Thailand.

How dare these "red" thugs attempt to prevent a very legitimate farmers protest.

Guess the thugs secure income from somewhere in the Middle East .

[jonclark]

Found this picture on the web from the place where the red shirts took control. They look like Khmer Rouge to me. Same method of operation.

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Hey they're wearing the same shoes as those alleged fake armed PDRC guards / policemen from last weeks deadly and aborted attempt at Pan Fah bridge....and they wore black too.......nah can't be?

Since you know they are the same shoes, can you let us know the brand and name?

Or are you just stirring rumors?

Actually shannon i said it to highlight the utter ignorance of some of the comments and the way people have jumped to completely the wrong conclusion based on the flimsiest of evidence on TV over the past week.

Your passive aggressive demand for evidence simply reinforces that.

[MunterHunter]

So we expect the DSI and CMPO to round up these militant red shirts and throw them in jail.... right?

[Tatsujin]

They're clearky fake redshirts...

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Yeah . . . the black shirts and balaclavas obviously mean they are not red shirts . . .

[ShannonT]

The post does not state anything about them being armed yet calls them militants. Why is that unarmed red shirts are called militants but PDRC armed with guns are called guards?

[Rob8891]

The post does not state anything about them being armed yet calls them militants. Why is that unarmed red shirts are called militants but PDRC armed with guns are called guards?

Go look up the definition of militant(s) and stop posting such inane nonsense.

[gemini81]

The post does not state anything about them being armed yet calls them militants. Why is that unarmed red shirts are called militants but PDRC armed with guns are called guards?

Because they have illegally set up check points as false authorities- and set up signs like a police post- as you can clearly see in the pics (or even explain to helen keller in a way she could even grasp, so to speak). They say: don't come here in this area and create tension/friction (to that effect). Ironically, that is EXACTLY what these RED hooligans are doing- like saying: 'only we, the true almighty autocrat enforces have the rights to be here and occupy this zone, but you as ordinary demonstrators cannot.'

The images reveal the appearance of intimidation and scare tactics, is how it is referred to as militant. If you can't see that, refer to images from 2010 rallies (owing to the fact you weren't here nor exposed to it, nor trapped amongst it like some of us.)

Now you'll have revoke your comments on the 'illegal' occupation of simple demonstrators against PTP- their little minions have gone to a further extreme through intimidation with gestapo style check points, deciding who is or isn't.

Show us all of these armed, deadly PDRC you're ranting on about.

Edited February 25, 2014 by gemini81

[KimoMax]

Police in Bangkok "striking protesting farmers who were mostly women with their shields causing injuries".

And Red Shirt intimidation in Issan.

Says a lot about compassion for the suffering farmer peers or others with a different point of view.