Flashermac Posted October 21, 2008 Report Share Posted October 21, 2008 Sukhumwit is usually paralysed on Monday mornings anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mentors Posted October 22, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 22, 2008 PAD to continue protesting but cut down to one rally site The People's Alliance for Democracy has resolved to continue its protests although it has agreed to just confine to one rally site inside Government House, PAD leader Chamlong Srimuang said. The decision is in response to a suggestion by a number of academics that the PAD should suspend street protests following the punishment of former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra to serve two years in jail for committing conflict of interest. Chamlong said the PAD-led protests would focus dual objectives - opposing the charter rewrite and pressuring the government to quit in order to assume responsibility for the October 7 violent crackdown. He said the PAD will not rebuild the rally stage at Makawan Rangsak Bridge which was dismantled to make way for the royal motorcade scheduled for tomorrow's ceremony for the King Chulalongkorn Memorial Day at the Royal Plaza. http://www.nationmultimedia.com/2008/10/22/politics/politics_30086637.php they will not end until the last piece of Democracy is gone. :thumbdown: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted October 22, 2008 Report Share Posted October 22, 2008 Good idea - set up a designated protest area. Then everyone can go there to protest and not bother the rest of us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mentors Posted October 22, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 22, 2008 how about Chuvit's 'People Park', on Sukhumvit? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mentors Posted October 22, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 22, 2008 Thailand's embattled prime minister Somchai Wongsawat was pelted with shoes and water bottles by state employees while visiting a government ministry. Mr Somchai was confronted with a group of several angry hundred union members shouting "you are a murderer, you are a monitor lizard, shame on you" and "Somchai get out" when he arrived at the telecommunications ministry in Bangkok. At the end of his meeting the prime minister tried to leave by way of an underground car-park. The protesters cornered him and pelted him with missiles while his aides and police shielded him and hustled him through the crowd to a waiting car. Earlier this month Mr Somchai was forced to make a run for it when thousands of anti-government protesters surrounded parliament. The prime minister made his escape by climbing a fence. Two protesters died in clashes with police that day â?? leading to the slogan that Mr Somchai is a "murderer". For two months anti-government protesters have illegally occupied Government House, forcing the government to use temporary offices at Bangkok's old airport. The protesters claim the government is the puppet of the former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra. Mr Thaksin, who is in London, was convicted in absentia of corruption on Tuesday. Mr Somchai is his brother-in-law. The majority of Thais support the government. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/thailand/3240212/Thai-PM-Somchai-pelted-with-shoes..html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted October 22, 2008 Report Share Posted October 22, 2008 Bangkok Post 22 Oct 2008 PAD supporters try to drive away PM at ministry Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat was met by People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) supporters Wednesday morning, when he went to the Information and Communications Technology Ministry (ICT) to listen to a briefing by ICT Minister Mun Patanotai. The PAD supporters were employees of the TOT. They yelled "Somchai, the murderer" and "Prime Minister who kills people" when he left his vehicle. About 100 PAD supporters also gathered inside the ICT building. Mr Somchai reportedly went to shake hands with several of them before entering the ICT building. Mr Mun was there to welcome him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted October 22, 2008 Report Share Posted October 22, 2008 << The majority of Thais support the government. >> Where's the basis for that statement? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samak Posted October 22, 2008 Report Share Posted October 22, 2008 Where's the basis for that statement? there was a election and they won the majority! you forgot this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shygye Posted October 22, 2008 Report Share Posted October 22, 2008 I guess that is the ultimate Thai insult to be pelted with shoes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted October 22, 2008 Report Share Posted October 22, 2008 Where's the basis for that statement? there was a election and they won the majority! you forgot this? 36% is a majority? Yeah, right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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