waerth Posted February 1, 2014 Report Share Posted February 1, 2014 Florian Witulski â€@vaitor 4m Polling stations in Thailand are opening in about an hour but some reports already state blocked roads near stations by PDRC Protesters Tulip Naksompop â€@Tulip_Oum 2m 6:53AM Changwattana rd, in front of Govt Complex, is blocked from TOT HQ to Soi 14, both in/outbound.-@fm91trafficpro Sunai â€@sunaibkk 8m EC reported that voting in BKK (Laksi district) & 11 southern provinces is obstructed. #Thailand Richard Barrow â€@RichardBarrow 25m Protesters have called for a National Picnic Day on the streets of #Bangkok. Many roads might be blocked today pic.twitter.com/EsoTAsAMje Richard Barrow â€@RichardBarrow 33m I was going to suggest go on a day trip, but news just in that protesters are blocking passenger vans at Century Mall at Victory Monument. teamkorn â€@teamkorn 50m @veen_NT: "Farmer: If we won't vote tomorrow, we won't die but we will die if we don't get our rice money.†#Thailand #BangkokShutdown teamkorn â€@teamkorn 51m 10PM last night , rice farmers from Pitsanulok arrive at PDRC Pathumwan protest site Via @KomNopparat & @barrie_brown pic.twitter.com/eobeCXkEZ2 Tulip Naksompop â€@Tulip_Oum 2m PDRC Victory Monument moved to block DinDaeng district office since 10PM last night, no ballots able to be transferred out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Munchmaster Posted February 2, 2014 Report Share Posted February 2, 2014 Don't think I'll be flying in today! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waerth Posted February 2, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 2, 2014 teamkorn â€@teamkorn 1m My position: Protesters should not obstruct people's rights to go vote and the government should not be forcing civil servants to go vote Ryan Whelan â€@ryanwhelan 3m @Tulip_Oum 7am: Ratchatewi District Office also blocked this morning pic.twitter.com/3d1junk6hr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waerth Posted February 2, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 2, 2014 Richard Barrow â€@RichardBarrow 3m 7:40am - RT @pakhead: Din Daeng polling station completely blocked by PDRC. Multiple barricades, a stage, music, dancing, no hope of voting Jonathan Head â€@pakhead 4m @RichardBarrow police being escorted into barricaded Din Daeng polling station by PDRC. Trying to negotiate. Jonathan Head â€@pakhead 1m Election officials, soldiers, police and ballot papers barricaded inside Din Daeng district office and polling station by PDRC. Richard Barrow â€@RichardBarrow 30s 7:43am Locals wait to welcome PM Yingluck who is expected to vote at Klong Lamjiak School (Pic @jeerapong_nna) pic.twitter.com/DFWBQBi9cf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waerth Posted February 2, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 2, 2014 Richard Barrow â€@RichardBarrow 1m Interim PM Yingluck only has a 300 meter trip from her house to the local polling station (Pic @weeranan) pic.twitter.com/sXVYPVVeBm 35 polling stations in Bang Kapi fail to turn up to receive ballots, boxes Officials from 35 polling stations in Bang Kapi district have not turned up to receive ballots and ballot boxes from the district office, Channel 7 reported. By 7:45 am, the 35 polling stations have not yet ready been ready for the election as officials would not pick up ballots and ballot boxes, the TV station said. The Nation Don Mueang district polling stations ready for ballot casting: Channel 7 All polling stations in Don Mueang district have been ready for the election with voters turning up to check their names since 7 am, Channel 7 reported. The TV station said the district had no problem of distributing ballots and ballot boxes because a group of red-shirt people guarded the district office since Friday. The Nation PDRC protesters besiege Ratchathewi district office Protesters led by the People's Democratic Reform Committee blocked the gate of the Ratchathewi district office at 2 am Sunday to prevent officials from distributing ballots and ballot boxes to polling stations. The protesters used a six-wheel truck, a bus and pick-up trucks to block the gate. They also blocked the Mitr Maitree Road. All members of Lak Si Election Commission resign following clash The director and all members of the Lak Si Election Commission have resigned following clash between red-shirt people and anti-government protesters near the Lak Si district office Saturday. Somchai Srisuthiyakorn, a member of the Election Commission, said at 10:30 pm Saturday that the EC officials resigned because they did not want to see more violence happen. As a result, the EC announced that the elections at all polling stations in the district were suspended. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waerth Posted February 2, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 2, 2014 Richard Barrow â€@RichardBarrow 3m 7:55am - RT @osandpo: Some roads outside the city are blocked by farmers too. Rama 2 still shut at Wang Manao Richard Barrow â€@RichardBarrow 2m 7:55am - RT @Journotopia: Sathorn DistrIct Office. A dozen people waiting to vote. No protesters. Richard Barrow â€@RichardBarrow 1m 8am - RT @georgehenton: Protestors inside polling station at Phaya Thai BTS pic.twitter.com/lesRzasxpS Tulip Naksompop â€@Tulip_Oum 1m She said she flew from Japan to cast her vote. They are angry and blame Sutep for not able to vote today. (DinDaeng) pic.twitter.com/5vH7Cbsc0J Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waerth Posted February 2, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 2, 2014 Richard Barrow â€@RichardBarrow 19m Yingluck arrived at polling station by car. Local people there to greet her & also foreign media (Pic @news1005fm) pic.twitter.com/AfZrFQflj5 Gabrielle Paluch â€@Fishinabucket 20m @Tulip_Oum @fratticcioli Din Daeng chief says no sub-units came to collect ballots, if not picked up by 9 am, that's 20,000 not voting tulsathit â€@tulsathit 16m Apart from a myriad of legal challenges, post-election Thailand will see multi-facet analyses/intepretation of "numbers". Richard Barrow â€@RichardBarrow 16m 8:10am Polling station at Si Ayutthaya School can't open as ballot papers haven't been delivered (Pic @bkk_dailynews) pic.twitter.com/3Hm682dR2a Chaowarat (Poupae) â€@chaowarat_KTTV 18m No voting at polling station at Sutisan Police station, ballots didn't make it to the station due to protests.#KTTV http://fb.me/2u6dNxsE7 Richard Barrow â€@RichardBarrow 13m 8:20am- RT @photogjack: At Din Daeng riot police and protestors. Not much happening both sides about 100 meters apart. George Thaivisa â€@georgebkk 12m RT@karmanomad: #Thailand PM Yingluck Shinawatra has voted in contentious election. Blockades and boycott, legal issues cloud outcome. Richard Barrow â€@RichardBarrow 11m 8:25am - RT @dicklp: Police leave Din Daeng district office having given up on ballot delivery. 20,000 ppl lose vote Tulip Naksompop â€@Tulip_Oum 9m 8:04AM Saimai district constituency 2-15 seen no sign of PDRC, security reportedly tight.-@JaskyMCOT: pic.twitter.com/PpOe4mxnNd tulsathit â€@tulsathit 1m In Songkhla, absence of ballots is forcing cancellation of voting in all constituencies. via @kttvnews Richard Barrow â€@RichardBarrow 3m Famous war photographer James Nachtwey who was shot at yesterday, is back at work today (Pic @8td) pic.twitter.com/9ntSnwZbij #Thailand Tulip Naksompop â€@Tulip_Oum 49s 8:27AM protesters still surround ballot boxes at Rachathewee district office.-@Thanita_NBC pic.twitter.com/n9Tnz27MK9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted February 2, 2014 Report Share Posted February 2, 2014 PM's house guarded by 165 policemen from Chiang Mai, report Channel 7 reported that the house of caretaker Prime Minister Yingluck Shinwatra has been guarded with 165 policemen from Chiang Mai. The station said the house of the prime minister and the polling station inside the Klong Lamchiak School in front of her house have been guarded by security officials. An army of reporters and a lot of supporters have been waiting for the prime minister in front of her house and inside the school, the TV station said. http://www.nationmultimedia.com/breakingnews/PMs-house-guarded-by-165-policemen-from-Chiang-Mai-30225810.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted February 2, 2014 Report Share Posted February 2, 2014 150 policemen from Khon Kaen guard polling station where Shinawatra family will vote A company of policemen or 150 officers were deployed to guard the 15th polling station of Bang Plad district in the Pimolthip School. The station is where children of former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra are eligible to vote. No protesters turned up there as of 8 am. http://www.nationmultimedia.com/breakingnews/150-policemen-from-Khon-Kaen-guard-polling-station-30225815.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted February 2, 2014 Report Share Posted February 2, 2014 Rival groups clash at Lak Si Ko Tee's men attack Violence continued yesterday in the face of anti-government rallies with shots fired at Bangkok's Lak Si intersection, which saw at least four people wounded by gunshots and three slightly injured by giant firecrackers. Police and army officers, meanwhile, were looking to set up 60 additional checkpoints until tomorrow. Some 34 checkpoints have already been set up. Police also plan to send 88 rapid-response units to join the Army in beefing up security in the 50 districts in Bangkok, plus six districts in Nonthaburi, Lat Lum Kaew in Pathum Thani and Bang Phli in Samut Prakan, according to police deputy spokesman Pol Maj-General Anucha Rommayanant. At least seven people were injured in clashes between red shirts and protesters led by the People's Democratic Reform Committee outside the Lak Si district office yesterday afternoon. The confrontation occurred after Luangpu Puttha Issara, a monk who has headed the rally at Chaeng Wattana, led protesters to surround the district office to prevent the transport of ballots and ballot boxes to polling stations. While the PDRC protesters were rallying, hardline red-shirt leader Wutthipong Kachatham, or Ko Tee, led some 200 red shirts to confront the protesters. Nation Channel reported that sounds of explosions were heard four times while the two sides were about 800 metres from each other - believed to be giant firecrackers. A car was also reportedly smashed amid the chaos. At around 4pm, two firecracker explosions were heard under an overpass at the Lak Si intersection and three people were slightly injured, including Jirawat Sukanon, a Daily News reporter, who suffered wounds to his mouth and nose. Up to 40 gunshots and several giant firecracker explosions were then heard. It was later reported that at least one person was wounded by a gunshot in front of the nearby IT Square Mall, which shut shortly after. PDRC protesters at the Lat Phrao intersection sent men to rescue fellow protesters at the district office compound. As gunshots continued to be fired in the Lak Si intersection area, some 30 bystanders were caught up on a nearby pedestrian bridge and barged through the mall's doors to seek refuge inside the building. Bystanders, security personnel and journalists raced to take cover in the mall after a man pulled out an assault rifle from a bag and began spraying bullets during a stand-off between government supporters and scores of opposition demonstrators, an Agence France-Presse reporter at the scene said. The firing went on for at least one hour. Emergency workers said several people have been injured in the fighting, which broke out as anti-government groups laid siege to a ballot box distribution centre in the Thai capital. "One victim was apparently shot in the chest and was hospitalised," an official from the city's Erawan emergency centre said, adding that two others had also been taken to hospital. At least two explosions were heard in the area, which police attributed to Molotov cocktails, before the firing began. The AFP reporter said there were volleys of heavy gunfire in the area at one point. At 5.30pm Colonel Songwit Noonpakdee, commander of the 11th Infantry Regiment (King's Guard) went to observe the situation at the Lak Si intersection. He ordered soldiers to go to the back of Chaeng Wattana soi 10, where the Lak Si district office is, to prevent more people being mobilised. Meanwhile, troops tried to help people trapped in the area to get out. At the same time, Nation Channel reported that another gunfight had erupted at the Lak Si intersection. At around 5.40pm, PDRC leader Somchai Issara urged supporters to retreat from there so that soldiers could clear the area in front of the mall. As a precaution, the State Railway of Thailand at 5.15pm announced the closure of services at Laksi and Don Muang to ensure passengers' safety. Earlier in the morning, a 10-wheel truck belonging to the PDRC blocking the Lak Si district office was shot up with 7-9 bullets, but there were no reports of injuries. There was another shooting at 2am, along with a giant firecrackers hurled at protesters camping at the Lat Phrao intersection, but no one was injured. Protest guards said a sedan passed by the rally site before multiple gunshots were heard, so they alerted soldiers manning a nearby checkpoint to investigate. It was initially suspected that an ill-intentioned person had thrown the firecrackers to intimidate the protesters. http://www.nationmul...i-30225795.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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