Flashermac Posted December 26, 2013 Author Report Share Posted December 26, 2013 Get yourself a smartphone Frash The phone I have is already smarter than I am. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted December 26, 2013 Author Report Share Posted December 26, 2013 Din Daeng residents slam use of tear gas Residents including children who live near the site where police fired tear gas at the anti-government demonstrators trying to interrupt candidacy registration this morning have been seriously affected by the gas. Police started firing tear gas canisters at protesters at about 7.20am after the Students and People's Network for Thailand’s Reform let them in cutting the padlock of Gate 2 and attempted to storm the Thai-Japanese stadium's compound on Vibhavadi Rangsit road. After the gate was opened, the protesters came face-to-face with a police truck that blocked the gate. Police fired canisters of tear gas at the protesters, who in turn grabbed some of the canisters and hurled them back into the compound. Some protesters were also hit by rubber bullets. Residents of the nearby Din Daeng flats were forced to close doors and windows and use fans blow the tear gas powder from their rooms. Arisa Makkui said her six-month-old daughter was affected by tear gas, waking up in fright and crying as the first canisters were fired at the protesters. "Police should stop firing teargas because this is a community where there are many small children and old people," she said. Meanwhile, Somsri Temtung said her three-month-old baby and four-year-old daughter were also affected by the chemicals. She used a fan to blow the powder out of the room. She said she wanted to see all sides stop fighting as it causes problems for the flat residents. She added if the protesters had not incited police, there would not have been any need for tear gas. Neung Romrat takes care of her paralysed aunt and said she is unable to move away from her flat. http://www.nationmul...s-30222991.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted December 26, 2013 Author Report Share Posted December 26, 2013 Wipawadee Road at the Army Club maybe around 4.40pm. It had been a long day for the protesters and most were already on their way home. But Thais along the way were curious and were waiting by the road in hopes of seeing the protesters. Nothing like watching history happen! The protest leader was speaking from the big truck on the right. It was the Students and People's Anti-Corruption group or whatever it is called, which backed stopping of registration of candidates. They blocked the road until he was done speaking, then all the remaining protesters left. https://twitter.com/...3910914/photo/1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted December 26, 2013 Author Report Share Posted December 26, 2013 Michael Yon is reporting on the Thai Army refusing to help the police. Instead, they gave water to the protesters. He gave a running account as it happened. Doesn't sound pretty. "Today Protesters were throwing stones and giant fireworks at police. This was not like the peaceful protests of Sunday or last week. This reminded me more of the 2010 protests where the Army was the target. It was much like 2010. Today's protest was done by a splinter group. The protesters were kind to me but they were provoking police and wrecking government property." But others are posting that Yon got there late, and the police had been provoking the protesters from some time. They say the police gave one warning, then opened fire. https://www.facebook...151873799730665 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted December 26, 2013 Author Report Share Posted December 26, 2013 EC to try harder in postponing election Election Commissioner Somchai Srisuthiyakorn said he would further try to convince Pheu Thai Party to postpone the election. He reiterated that the election would only lead to more disturbance. What if there are more protests against the registration of election candidates at all constituencies?, he asked. If that happens, the commissioners would decide if they should exercise the legal power, he said. http://www.nationmultimedia.com/breakingnews/EC-to-try-harder-in-postponing-election-30223037.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted December 26, 2013 Author Report Share Posted December 26, 2013 One police officer was killed and at least 96 anti-government protesters and journalists and 28 police officers were injured after violence erupted at the Bangkok Youth Centre (Thai-Japan) aka the Thai-Japanese Stadium yesterday, according to the state emergency medical service agency. The Public Health Ministry reported yesterday that at least one protester had undergone surgery after being shot in the head. Police General Hospital director Police Lt-General Jongjet Aojenpong said Police Sgt-Major Narong Pitisitthi, 45, died after being shot in right chest. He lost a lot of blood on the way to the hospital. Doctors tried to give him artificial respiration but he succumbed. Pol Maj-General Piya Uthaiyo, the spokesman for the Centre for the Administration of Peace and Order (CAPO), said injured police officers were sent to General Police Hospital after clashes with protesters at the Thai-Japanese Stadium. Police Lance Corporal Thanapol Nopluay, 25, who was shot on his right shoulder during the clashes later underwent surgery. Police Senior Sgt-Major Preecha Thongpiam, 42, Sgt-Major Tawee Wongchan, 40, were hospitalised after being injured during the tear gas attacks and after unknown objects were thrown at them. At noon, Piya said two more officers, injured by ping-pong bombs, were still inside the centre. Saying that the poll numbers draw has been completed, he asked protesters why they were still trying to break into the centre where the draw took place in the morning. Police resorted to firing tear gas at the protesters at the stadium yesterday morning. As of 2pm yesterday, the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA)'s Erawan Emergency Medical Service Centre reported that all the injured people had been sent to seven hospitals in Bangkok. Of the injured, 35 injured protesters were sent to Rajvithi Hospital while 10 were sent to Ramathibodi, seven to Police General Hospital, three to Pramongkut Hospital, three to Veterans General Hospital, two to Paolo Hospital, and one to Phyathai hospital. According to the Public Health Ministry, one of the injured protesters, who was hit by a bullet in the head, underwent brain surgery at Rajvithi hospital. He later was identified as the security guard of the anti-government People's Democratic Reform Committee. Two other protesters were shot by rubber bullets and suffered after-effects of the tear gas. At least two local reporters from Thairath TV and ASTV were also injured in the clashes. A reporter from Thairath TV was affected by the tear gas and a cameraman from ASTV was hit by a rubber bullet. A Japanese reporter was hit by unknown objects on his face. http://www.nationmul...s-30223049.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waerth Posted December 27, 2013 Report Share Posted December 27, 2013 Chadaporn Lin â€@ChadapornLin 5m Nation Channel: a guard of protester group who was shot yesterday has died at hospital bringing death toll from yesterday to 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted December 27, 2013 Author Report Share Posted December 27, 2013 It would be nice if they identified the calibre of bullets, so that we can get some idea of who was doing the shooting. I suspect it was the protester whose photo showed him lying on the ground with a very serious stomach wound. Then again, another protester had been shot in the head. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted December 27, 2013 Author Report Share Posted December 27, 2013 ... Meanwhile the Constitutional Court, which earlier also ruled against the amendment, voted yesterday to reject petitions filed against the People's Democratic Reform Commission (PDRC) and the Democrat Party on whether they had violated Article 68 of the Constitution. The court ruled that under the Constitution, the PDRC's protest rallies were an exercise in freedom of assembly and there were no grounds to suggest they were organised with the intention to overthrow a democratically elected government. The petitions were filed by former senator Ruangkrai Leekijwattana and Pheu Thai Party members. The court also plans to rule on a petition filed by former Democrat MP Wiratana Kalayasiri, which states that the amendment to Article 190 passed by Parliament on January 8 violated Article 68 of the charter. ... http://www.nationmul...N-30223041.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted January 5, 2014 Author Report Share Posted January 5, 2014 Media throws more light on clashes Reporters, photographers on the field and a senior police officer in charge of the operation gave their accounts that shed more light on the sequence of events surrounding the deadly clashes at Bangkok Youth Centre, also known as the Thai-Japanese Stadium. The clashes, which left two people dead and about a hundred injured, took place on December 26, as protesters tried to prevent election candidates from registering their candidacy at the venue. One reporter from the Nation Multimedia Group said he was there from 7am at Gate 2 of the centre. "Young protesters began climbing the wall to enter the venue with some of them using a ladder. Police warned them that if they trespassed, the police would be compelled to use tear gas and rubber bullets. But the teenage protesters did not listen and began throwing bottles and wooden debris at police," said the reporter. "The protest leader at that time was Amorn [Amornratananont from ASTV], who tried to warn the protesters to calm down, but the young protesters would not heed. [Amorn's] vehicle then left for another gate, which was about 100 metres away." The reporter said then a six-wheeler, attached to a crane, tried to bring down three concrete poles supporting the wall. It was then that the police began firing tear gas. Some three to four canisters were fired. The young protesters then moved to the area between gates 1 and 2 and hurled objects at the police. Some threw fire-extinguisher tanks in the direction of the police. Amorn's truck left the area at around 8am and it left a leadership vacuum with the situation becoming more violent. The reporter said the police issued a warning only once and that at least one officer appeared to have used a slingshot in retaliation. One protester was hit by an iron bolt fired from what appeared to be a slingshot. Pol Lt-General Sophon Pisutwong, who was in charge of the police operation on that day, said they could not give any further warnings as the loudspeaker vehicle was damaged soon after the first warning was given. He attributed the level of violence to the violent intention of some protesters. "It ended like that because they intentionally wanted to see violence," said Sophon. What's more, he said, the protesters realised that the police were not armed with lethal weapons and so they acted as they pleased. The arrest of 14 protesters who were taken inside the centre also was a factor, he said, stressing that police had followed the international standards in handling the crowd. One Thai news photographer working for a foreign news agency said rubber bullets were fired indiscriminately at one point with four photographers being hit, himself included. On the other hand, he observed protesters tearing down the wall of the centre at a number of spots. Police vehicles were vandalised by protesters, who managed to enter the centre, and what appeared to be gun shots were heard until this photographer fled by evening due to safety concerns even as the clashes continued late into the evening. Another news photographer said the violence could be blamed on the fact that the protest leader soon abandoned his men and there was no one to calm the situation down. "It was later, around 3pm, that protest leader Amorn returned on the back of a truck and ordered the protesters to retreat as they were negotiating with police about those who had been arrested. Most of the protesters retreated, except a group of 20-30 young men who continued to throw objects at the police and tried to enter the centre until someone shouted that live bullets were being used. So there was a panic dispersal. I looked ahead and saw a group of some 40 to 50 police officers marching and firing tear gas. Some protesters were hit and fell down, but I don't know what kind of bullet was used." Another newspaper photographer on the ground on that day said that by 4pm the protesters had managed to destroy the wall and enter the site and there were heavy clashes. Bullets were fired, although he was not sure whether they were real or rubber bullets, and the protesters were eventually dispersed. He said he heard a police officer complaining to his colleagues that their superior had not instructed them whether to attack or retreat and he [the superior] wasn't even at the site. "The police appeared to be very upset and they released [their anger] by attacking vehicles parked along the route when they were chasing the protesters." http://www.nationmultimedia.com/politics/Media-throws-more-light-on-clashes-30223500.html So the leaders of both side ran away? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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