Army to secure downtown with 117 more checkpoints
By Coconuts Bangkok


Thousands of Thai soldiers gathered near the Government House to face down supporters of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra on April 13, 2009. Photo: Nicolas Asfouri / AFP

BANGKOK: -- To restore security after night upon night of bombings and shootings in the capital, the Royal Thai Army announced yesterday it will deploy soldiers at 117 additional checkpoints near protest sites.

The announcement came after army brass met to discuss the ongoing security crisis, which has seen unknown assailants launch attacks with guns and grenade launchers. Four children died in the past week in Bangkok and Trat province. [read more...]

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-- Coconuts Bangkok 2014-02-27

While the army are doing this the police can carry on doing their normal checkpoint duty to get tea money, Surely this is police work they should be ordered to end their checkpoints for no hat offenders and man these.

The police have far more experience at manning road blocks, it's an everyday job collecting. But they would not be collecting so there is no reason to do it.

Perhaps a subtle message is being sent to all involved parties by the military.

Let's be honest the police farce force are about as much use as chocolate fireguards.

coup next week for sure.

Game Over

coup next week for sure.

Hope so! Long overdue. Before the chiang rai area is under a red flag with a yellow star

Game Over

Wrong, it'll never be over, ... Coup and then what???? another ambush attack for the hardcore redshirt leaders and their blind supporters, just another preparation for ANOTHER Battlefield Bangkok in the future,

wanna bet???

coup next week for sure.

The red shirts won't surrender this time. I just hope the yellow shirts and army remember they brought it all on themselves.

coup next week for sure.

The red shirts won't surrender this time. I just hope the yellow shirts and army remember they brought it all on themselves.

Yep,... you mean,... the redshirt fanatic-lunatics NOT affiliated to the rice farmers, the same people who were oppressing the rice farmers' agenda.

coup next week for sure.

The red shirts won't surrender this time. I just hope the yellow shirts and army remember they brought it all on themselves.

What red shirts?

The last time that they tried to take Bangkok and oust the anti government protestors they realized that they had made a very big mistake and went back home with their tails between their legs.

Now they are reduced to carrying out cowardly hit & run terrorist tactics.

The red shirts are loosing support at a rate of knots and are now a spent force.

Are you really so soft in the head that you believe these bullies can take on the army?

While the army are doing this the police can carry on doing their normal checkpoint duty to get tea money, Surely this is police work they should be ordered to end their checkpoints for no hat offenders and man these.

The police have far more experience at manning road blocks, it's an everyday job collecting. But they would not be collecting so there is no reason to do it.

Maybe if the police could fee everyone with a bomb 10.000 Baht into their own pocket and resell the seized bombs, it would fix the problem.

Ups they do exactly that with narcotics already and it doesn't fix anything....

Looks like a slow motion coup........ Tanks rolling down main avenues looks so sixties,

and might scare off tourists.

coup next week for sure.

The red shirts won't surrender this time. I just hope the yellow shirts and army remember they brought it all on themselves.

What red shirts?

The last time that they tried to take Bangkok and oust the anti government protestors they realized that they had made a very big mistake and went back home with their tails between their legs.

Now they are reduced to carrying out cowardly hit & run terrorist tactics.

The red shirts are loosing support at a rate of knots and are now a spent force.

Are you really so soft in the head that you believe these bullies can take on the army?

Redshirts losing support?????? Just because of a few million rice farmers????

Not so fast, lad. There are STILL plenty of brainwashed redhsirt-fanatic-luntac-leaders AND their brainwashed followers who would die-hard for their leader in Dubai. Trust me. This bunch is still plenty and they're getting paid under the table to uphold REDEMOCRACY aka THAKSINOCRACY

any more questions???

While the army are doing this the police can carry on doing their normal checkpoint duty to get tea money, Surely this is police work they should be ordered to end their checkpoints for no hat offenders and man these.

The police have far more experience at manning road blocks, it's an everyday job collecting. But they would not be collecting so there is no reason to do it.

Maybe if the police could fee everyone with a bomb 10.000 Baht into their own pocket and resell the seized bombs, it would fix the problem.

Ups they do exactly that with narcotics already and it doesn't fix anything....

Haha you have been in Thailand too long..... :-)

coup next week for sure.

The red shirts won't surrender this time. I just hope the yellow shirts and army remember they brought it all on themselves.

Great if the redshirts do not surrender, then in a swoop, the country can get rid of many disturbing (red) factors.

coup next week for sure.

The red shirts won't surrender this time. I just hope the yellow shirts and army remember they brought it all on themselves.

What red shirts?

The last time that they tried to take Bangkok and oust the anti government protestors they realized that they had made a very big mistake and went back home with their tails between their legs.

Now they are reduced to carrying out cowardly hit & run terrorist tactics.

The red shirts are loosing support at a rate of knots and are now a spent force.

Are you really so soft in the head that you believe these bullies can take on the army?

They refuse to listen to the will of the majority. Why? Because that majority does not suit their agenda.

coup next week for sure.

The red shirts won't surrender this time. I just hope the yellow shirts and army remember they brought it all on themselves.

After the BKK burning --supporting corrupt government, worshiping their hero in Dubai, being allowed to set up red villages, using heavy handed mob rule to support a dictatorship.

Elections under these conditions no way ---no democracy--no democratic elections.

So yellow shirts and the army are guilty of fingers in the Thai till ??? NOT. Government breaking it's own laws, it has to go, that is not serving the people as SWORN IN to do.

Ha ha ha, this is a new twist. "A coup by any other name" coup!

Really you couldn't make up the ridiculous tales that come out of Thai politics.

coup next week for sure.

The red shirts won't surrender this time. I just hope the yellow shirts and army remember they brought it all on themselves.

What red shirts?

The last time that they tried to take Bangkok and oust the anti government protestors they realized that they had made a very big mistake and went back home with their tails between their legs.

Now they are reduced to carrying out cowardly hit & run terrorist tactics.

The red shirts are loosing support at a rate of knots and are now a spent force.

Are you really so soft in the head that you believe these bullies can take on the army?

They refuse to listen to the will of the majority. Why? Because that majority does not suit their agenda.

Nothing to do with the MAJORITY in this situation, you always get the sack when you get your fingers in the till. When caught you do not say to the boss I want new elections to get my job back.

Game Over

Wrong, it'll never be over, ... Coup and then what???? another ambush attack for the hardcore redshirt leaders and their blind supporters, just another preparation for ANOTHER Battlefield Bangkok in the future,

wanna bet???

You're quite possibly right. There are too many interest groups on all sides with little care other than their own wealth and power.

Having said that, if the Shins can be ousted for good, the situation may get better... say from 'extremely corrupt', to just 'very corrupt'.

The army appears to be slowly moving into place. If the UDD successfully impedes the NACC from meeting today, it will have been the first time that the constitutional process itself has been impeded or blocked. And that poses a threat to the whole structure of society. As the UDD have called for the elimination of the independent agencies and the neutering of the courts, the legal system itself is in peril. The army has sworn to protect the constitution and the constitutional process. If the legal system of checks and balances goes, people's liberty at the most fundamental level is threatened.

Yingluck has a constitutional obligation to go to the NACC meeting. Yingluck has a constitutional obligation to call off her supporters who now - by their actions as well as words - are threatening the judicial system of checks and balances.

I have just the military setting up a so called checkpoint on Petchaburi Road opposite Srinakrinwirot University.

If these checkpoints are to protect the protesters then this one is on the wrong side of the road. The traffic there is moving away from Asoke.

For goodness sake, I wish people would stop “Crying Wolf” every time the Army, the Government or the PCAD says something. Your predictions are like somebody trying to “fart agenised a strong wind”, it just comes right back.

They refuse to listen to the will of the majority. Why? Because that majority does not suit their agenda.

Nothing to do with the MAJORITY in this situation, you always get the sack when you get your fingers in the till. When caught you do not say to the boss I want new elections to get my job back.

Rubbish, her boss can simply sack her on the spot, he made his choice and it wasn't Suthep and his coups.

coup next week for sure.

The red shirts won't surrender this time. I just hope the yellow shirts and army remember they brought it all on themselves.

Yes, all of the 4000 souls will not surrender. This bunch is fragmented too.

I wonder whether this is as ordered by the caretaker-Defence Minister from Chiang Mai, or against her command, there's an unsubtle difference.

The UDD could hardly protest about a coup, if the army is merely following orders from the caretaker PM/DM, to re-establish order & security in the capital, can they ?

coup next week for sure.

The red shirts won't surrender this time. I just hope the yellow shirts and army remember they brought it all on themselves.

What red shirts?

The last time that they tried to take Bangkok and oust the anti government protestors they realized that they had made a very big mistake and went back home with their tails between their legs.

Now they are reduced to carrying out cowardly hit & run terrorist tactics.

The red shirts are loosing support at a rate of knots and are now a spent force.

Are you really so soft in the head that you believe these bullies can take on the army?

Man you got it totally correct.

If the army come out though it may not be an out and out coup, but more like a situation of martial law will exist.

The protesters can disperse and wait out the court to do their job for them and almost stroll in to complete their target of reforms and fair elections without any Thaksin influence anywhere.

This will then remove the attacker's soft targets that they have been preying on for months and so where do the reds go from here??? I will tel you... They will have absolutely nowhere to go. No protest site to act as a sitting duck for them, can't go into BKK at night under martial law... also can't gather there because it will be like an ISO on steroids.

Attack the army? I don't think they want to put themselves back in the 2010 situation.

They will just have to sit in isaan gnashing their teeth. They won't have anything else they can be capable of.

If they start spouting that they will divide Thailand, then there will be a huge response from the army, anyone getting on a stage to announce that will be an instant target for arrest on treason charges.

In house, Army fighting over who gets the Nana Bunker...pick me pick me.

In house, Army fighting over who gets the Nana Bunker...pick me pick me.

Hardly. Get real. That's where foreigners go anyway- the locals go to low profile places where the Mrs. won't find out- not the main issue at hand now.

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coup next week for sure.

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