drogon Posted April 13, 2009 Report Share Posted April 13, 2009 Confirmed by AFP and Reuters. ------------------------------- One shot dead by red-shirted protesters Red-shirted protesters shot a person dead and injured two others when residents of the Nang Lerng Market came out to criticise the protesters, PM's Office Satit Wongnontaey said. Satit told Channel 11 that the protesters shot at three people and one was killed while the two others were injured. The body was kept at the Central Hospital. The man was identified as Pom, 50. Satit said the media could check more information at the hospital. The Nation ------------------------------- Black Songkran claims first death Red-shirted protesters alleged shot and killed a vendor, as Thailand faces another black day in politics. Follow the developments as they happen here Tension remains very high in Bangkok, with retreating protesters running amok in some areas following troops' success in retaking the Victory Monument area in the morning. Protesters have burned several buses and public vehicles. Following is our live report. Please refresh the page regularly to see the updates: 9.30 pm: Details of the Nang Lerng Market shooting remains sketchy. Apparently, the victim was shot during a confrontation between Nang Lerng residents and some red-shirted protesters who allegedly caused fears that they might set fire to the market. Earlier, many vendors have helped troops confront protesters who were armed with a lot of molotov cocktails. The residents booed the protesters and cheered the troops, according to the Manager website. The website said up to 10 people may have been injured in the shooting. It said several protesters were armed with guns. The website said the protesters claimed they were intimidated by the presence of hostile Nang Lerng residents. 8.40pm: Red-shirted protesters entered Nang Lerng Market Monday evening and pushed the vendors outside. PM's Office Minister Satit Wongnongtoey tells NBT channel that three were injured and one guy named Pom aged 54 years old have died at the hospital after being shot by redshirted protesters, according to eye-witnesses who phoned Satit. There have been fears the protesters would set fire to the market. Increasing red-shirted aggression has prompted reports about tension with residents in certain areas. In certain spots, residents have reportedly formed groups to boo protesters or confront them. Edit: ---------------------------------- UDD clash leaves two dead By: BangkokPost.com Published: 13/04/2009 at 10:43 PM A group of red-shirt protesters clashed with more than 100 residents at Mahanak Market on Monday night. Two residents were shot dead and at least 10 people were injured. Reports said more than 100 locals at Bangkok's Mahanak Market were trying to drive out the anti-government United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) protesters from the area before the clash erupted. Gunshots were heard periodically. The locals asked for assistance from about 30 police and military officers stationed nearby the area, but they did not respond to the request. The two men, who were allegedly gunned down by the red-shirts, are identified as Pom Polphanbua, aged 54, and Yuthakarn, 19. One of the wounded were shot in the ankle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bangkoktraveler Posted April 13, 2009 Report Share Posted April 13, 2009 This incident can escalate to hundreds dying. Hard to know where Thailand stands now a days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drogon Posted April 13, 2009 Author Report Share Posted April 13, 2009 Exactly....just for the supporters of Mr T... I don't care which cause you defend but killing people for it is a cowardly act....Now of course if you are willing to die for it -> I will respect you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheekyboy Posted April 13, 2009 Report Share Posted April 13, 2009 Demonstrator killed as Thailand troops bid to end Bangkok unrest Death comes in gun battle as protest leaders vow to make 'final stand' * Mark Tran and agencies * guardian.co.uk, Monday 13 April 2009 16.40 BST * Article history Battles in streets of Bangkok Thai army soldiers face anti-government red shirt protesters in the central district of Thailand's capital, Bangkok. Photograph: Narong Sangnak/EPA One person was killed today as troops closed in on thousands of protesters who have vowed to make a "last stand" in the Thai capital, Bangkok. Thai officials said the death - the first known fatality in days of unrest - came during a gun battle between residents and hundreds of red-shirted anti-government protesters outside the prime minister's office. A Thai doctor said the victim was shot in the chest and two others were wounded. The shootings followed a day of running street battles in the city that left at least 74 people injured. As evening fell, soldiers advanced into an area held by an estimated 5,000 protesters near Government House â?? the prime minister's office â?? in what appeared to be a final push to end demonstrations that have badly tarnished the country's reputation and deepened its political turmoil. "This will be our final stand. I beg that you return here and face them together," Jatuporn Phromphan, a protest leader, shouted from a platform. "We will use peaceful means and stay right here to end their violence." However, the prime minister, Abhisit Vejjajiva, who has come across as an indecisive figure in the crisis, expressed confidence that the government would restore order. "We are confident that we are in control of the situation," he told the BBC. In an earlier TV appearance, Abhisit urged people to leave the area and guaranteed their safety. But the exiled former prime minister, Thaksin Shinawatra, the figurehead of the protests, told CNN people had died. "Many people are dying. They even take the bodies on the military trucks and take them away," he said. Protests in Thailand A soldier looks on as a city bus burns. Photograph: David Longstreath/AP In the course of the protests, fires blazed in the street and plumes of smoke rose from burning cars and tyres during standoffs between troops and protesters, who commandeered about 30 buses to block military vehicles. In one confrontation, a Buddhist monk with a megaphone pleaded for calm and told soldiers: "Don't shoot. Think about your country." Police on motorbikes shuttled between troops and demonstrators to mediate. Elsewhere, about 100 women protesters knelt down in front of hundreds of soldiers and police and screamed. "Please stop, brothers." Some hugged the soldiers. The first and most serious clash began at about 4am local time when troops in full combat gear advanced to disperse the protesters. The soldiers reportedly fired hundreds of rounds from their M16 automatic rifles over the heads of the demonstrators. Protesters threw at least one petrol bomb, which exploded behind the army line as teargas hung in the air. At the nearby Century Park hotel, foreign tourists were seen rushing into taxis and heading for Bangkok's international airport. The clashes marked a major escalation in the anti-government unrest. Yesterday, protesters smashed cars carrying the prime minister and his aides. The secretary general of Abhisit's office, Niphon Promphan, was dragged from the car and beaten, suffering head injuries and broken ribs. The head of Thailand's armed forces, General Songkitti Jaggabatara, said soldiers would use "every means to end the chaos" but employ weapons only for "self-defence and to avoid excessive force". An army spokesman said that, by mid-afternoon today, its troops, some firing into the crowd, had cleared protesters from several key areas including the Victory Monument and two major road junctions. "The shots fired into the crowd were blank bullets," he said. "The heads are made of paper, so it only causes sound. We use these when protesters head toward soldiers to push them back. Those fired into the air are real bullets." The chaotic scenes from Bangkok threaten to further damage an economy already reeling from the combined effects of prolonged political instability and the global financial crisis. There were particular fears that tourism, a big earner of foreign exchange, would be badly hit. Countries including Britain, France and the US have urged their citizens to avoid trips to Thailand, and advised those already in Bangkok to stay in their hotels and away from protests. But regional experts predicted that the turmoil would continue for some time to come. "I believe the darkest days in Thailand's history are yet to come, as we see no swift solution to ongoing divisiveness," said Prinn Panitchpakdi, an Asia-Pacific analyst. Abhisit declared a state of emergency in Bangkok yesterday after supporters of Thaksin , who was deposed in a military coup in 2006, forced the cancellation of an Asian summit in the southern resort of Pattaya. Thaksin's supporters say Abhisit became prime minister last December only because of parliamentary defections that the military engineered. Thaksin's backers want new elections, which they think they are well-placed to win. The populist former prime minister fled the country last year before a court convicted him in his absence of violating a conflict-of-interest law. He has said that "it is time for the people to come out in revolution." A deeply divisive figure, Thaksin is popular with the rural poor but is largely loathed by urban Thais. Thailand has had four prime ministers in the past 15 months, none of whom has been able to heal the country's political divisions. The latest factional violence ÂÂfollows warnings from some observers that the country is in danger of slipping into a "mobocracy". Thailand's political crisis has been escalating since last year amid deep disagreements over what the nature of the political system should be in the aftermath of the 2006 coup, one of 18 since the end of absolute monarchy in 1932. 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Faustian Posted April 13, 2009 Report Share Posted April 13, 2009 Thaksin is lying left, right and centre to keep this going...what a total shit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted April 13, 2009 Report Share Posted April 13, 2009 From The Nation: More details are revealed on Channel 3's "Kow Sam Miti" (Three-dimensional news) on the shooting at Nang Lerng Market and a second victim known as Yutthakarn is pronounced dead. According to eyewitnesses, the Nang Lerng residents negotiated with the Red Shirt protesters to remove a bus as they fear for their safety. They successfully pushed the bus away from the area, but shortly after that a number of motorcycles roamed the street firing guns at the residents. Besides Pom Pholphanbua, 50, who died on the way to the hospital, Yutthakarn died at Central Hospital later and another women was severely injured by a gunshot in her foot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drogon Posted April 13, 2009 Author Report Share Posted April 13, 2009 @cheekyboy would you mind editing your post when you copy/paste articles??? This to avoid pollution by the adds... Thanks Faustian: Mr T is not lying -> he just gives orders. . Fight for democracy (for me) . Die for democracy (for me) . Topple the government (for me) and...he will come back when the time is right (when he won).....which I hope is never or only in a wooden box... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faustian Posted April 13, 2009 Report Share Posted April 13, 2009 From The Nation: More details are revealed on Channel 3's "Kow Sam Miti" (Three-dimensional news) on the shooting at Nang Lerng Market and a second victim known as Yutthakarn is pronounced dead. According to eyewitnesses, the Nang Lerng residents negotiated with the Red Shirt protesters to remove a bus as they fear for their safety. They successfully pushed the bus away from the area, but shortly after that a number of motorcycles roamed the street firing guns at the residents. Besides Pom Pholphanbua, 50, who died on the way to the hospital, Yutthakarn died at Central Hospital later and another women was severely injured by a gunshot in her foot. What wonderful and admirable people, so brave ...so sad for them and their families. They made the ultimate sacrifice. They have my utmost respect for what they did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drogon Posted April 13, 2009 Author Report Share Posted April 13, 2009 Easier for the reds to shoot a 50 years old man than to shoot at the army.... Must have guts to shoot an old man defending his small shop... Scum brainless and pussies... At least in the UK, France, Greece, most of the violent ones had the guts to fight the police... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doxx Posted April 13, 2009 Report Share Posted April 13, 2009 From the video clips I have seen and from what I have read, it appears that both Police and military is incredibly passive. Why do you think this is? They attack the PM's car and nearby police does nothing... Ppl request police to interfere when red shirts attack market and police does nothing... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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