Dead bodies snatched to encourage round 2 with fellow protesters?

[WorldFun]

http://www.asianewsnet.net/home/news.php?id=11323

 

"Leaders show on stage two dead bodies of red shirt protesters draped in Thai flags. A group of red shirt protesters snatched the dead bodies from a hospital to display them in front of fellow protesters, which has fuelled anger among them. THE NATION (THAILAND) PHOTO

 

Nineteen people were reported to have died and more than 800 injured from clashes between security forces and red-shirt demonstrators in different parts of the capital, National Emergency (Erawan) Centre's director Phetpong Kamchornkijakarn said late last night (April 9).

 

Five soldiers and 14 civilians, including a Japanese cameraman for the Thomson Reuters news agency, were killed, according to the government's Erawan emergency center.

 

The Japanese photographer, Hiroyuki Muramoto, died from a gunshot wound to his chest.

 

Of the red-shirt protesters, one of the dead was identified as 38-year-old Wasan Phoothong, who worked as a tailor in Samut Prakan province; while one was a 43-year-old guard for the movement. Another red-shirt protester killed was Sawat Wa-ngam, who, according to protest leader Weng Tojirakarn, had died from a head injury.

 

Of the two dead soldiers, one was killed by a gunshot wound to his neck.

 

According to reports, the biggest clash took place in Bangkok's Khok Wua intersection, where about 20 soldiers, a resident and a protester were injured. The victims were taken to hospitals nearby.

 

Vajira Hospital's director Dr Wanchai Charoenchokthavee said 51 injured people were admitted to the hospital, including 13 soldiers and one protester, who was sustained severe injuries to his lungs and stomach. Another protester was shot in his bottom. As of press time, the injured were undergoing surgery.

 

Earlier reports said another foreign journalist was shot in the head at Khok Wua intersection, and Wanchai said a foreigner called John Yinglin was among the injured. However, he could not confirm if he was a foreign journalist.

 

Meanwhile, Central Hospital director Dr Pitchaya Nakwatchara said yesterday that 30 injured people had been brought in from the Khok Wua intersection and Makkawan-Rangsan Bridge protest sites, of which 29 were civilians and one was a solider who had sustained head injury. Of the injured, three had gunshot wounds, including an ABC-News freelance photographer Winai Ditthajorn who was shot in his left leg.

 

He added that red-shirt protesters had also presented medical staff with some rubber bullets found in the clash site. Pitchaya confirmed that his hospital staff was on standby round the clock.

 

The hospital director later revealed X-rays of the three injured people, showing that Winai had been shot by what appeared to be a real bullet, while the two red-shirt protesters, Samak Khamsameu and Tag Benjamas, had been hit by a rubber bullet. As of press time, the three were undergoing surgery and will be under observation for three days.

 

Public health minister Jurin Laksanavisit, who is also chairman of the National Emergency Centre, said of the six soldiers sent to Siriraj Hospital, one had sustained a gunshot. He went on say that he had told all 79 emergency centres nationwide to work with Bangkok hospitals.

 

Emergency Medical Institute of Thailand's secretary-general Chatree Charoencheevakul said he expected the numbers of casualties to rise further, adding that he had put 1,000 medical staff and 150 ambulances on standby."

[cavanami]

The TV news (ch 3?) was showing a body being taken from the hospital.

[Wallenda]

This is fanaticism we're seeing. This is the kind of thing uneducated hardcore believers (read: dumb people) do to try to inflame a situation. Guess the blood pouring was a sign of things to come. What's next, are they gonna start calling the middle class cockroaches taht need to be squashed? Draw and quarter a soldier? Maybe suicide bombers?

 

It's like one of those tv reality police shows where the cops desperately try to subdue a guy with a handgun who's on angel dust, the tasers not working cuz he's so revved up -- only there's 10s of thousands of them, hell bent to destroy.

 

 

[WorldFun]

yeah crazy unreal stuff to me, but I'm sure they'll deny it all when the leaders are carted off to court...

but this time with their propaganda channel off air how they gonna keep their supporters in good faith?

[Bangkoktraveler]

Mr. T must be proud!

[WorldFun]

he may join them great leaders at the hague or Guantanamo bay

[khunsanuk]

Hi,

 

Saw this on TV. Utterly disgusting

 

Sanuk!

 

[Guest lazyphil]

seems like they want year zero like the khmer rouge and have bkkians marched into the fields to toil......bloody stupid savages.

[WorldFun]

yeah so it's like the leaders just finished their bacon & eggs at their 5* hotel & once confronted with real life this is what they came up with as the best way to possibly extend their existence as terrorist leaders?

a guess they're on 'daily rate' for this assignment so any extra day counts right?