Tanat Thanakitamnuay – the royalist rich kid turned ‘wounded hero’ for democracy

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Coss comment: Karma - it's a bitch...

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"Tanat first made headlines in 2010 when, as an 18-year-old, he drove his Porsche into a crowd of red-shirt protesters. He later denied having any intent to harm them."

 

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Tanat Thanakitamnuay was addressing a crowd of anti-government protesters in Bangkok on August 13 when he was hit by a projectile that his family says permanently blinded him in one eye.

The incident occurred near Din Daeng intersection, a hotspot of tense confrontations and clashes between crowd-control police and young demonstrators calling for the resignation of Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha.

Also known as “Hi-so Look Nat”, 29-year-old Tanat became the first high-profile protester to fall victim to what his supporters describe as police brutality after anti-Prayut demonstrators returned to the streets in early August.

Loss of eyesight

His family and supporters are convinced that Tanat was hit by a tear gas canister or rubber bullet fired by police. That claim was rejected by Metropolitan Police, who argued that the wound inflicted on his eye socket resembled the slingshot injury incurred by a crowd-control policeman recently.

Tanat’s family announced on his Facebook account last Thursday that he sustained a semi-circular cut to his right eyebrow, apparently caused by the impact of a blunt cylindrical object. His doctors concluded that he has lost sight in his right eye permanently, the statement added...

https://www.thaipbsworld.com/tanat-thanakitamnuay-the-royalist-rich-kid-turned-wounded-hero-for-democracy/