Flashermac Posted April 20, 2014 Report Share Posted April 20, 2014 About 50 red shirt supporters of the caretaker government stormed into the Lampang airport passenger terminal in search of election commissioner Somchai Srisuthiyakorn, who earlier described them rude, low and wild. The red shirts were angry at what they called an insult and vowed to hunt him down if he travelled to the North for election meeting. Somchai later posted on his Facebook apologising the red shirts for his remarks. He said he did not mean all red shirts but only a few of them. Earlier Friday their colleagues in Lamphun province also foiled a meeting of about 90 students of a political programme to attend a briefing at the Lamphun provincial town hall.The students were led on the tour by Election Commission chairman Supachai Somcharoen. But Somchai did not show up in Lamphun, enraging the red shirt protesters gathering at the hall in bid to retaliate his insult. They instead booed at the EC chairman and also threw rotten fishes, eggs and even human excreta at the van he boarded to leave the provincial town hall. On Saturday the red shirts in Lampang rushed to the Lampang airport after learning that Mr Somchai was to board a flight of Bangkok Airways back to Bangkok. They went asking airport authorities and Bangkok Airways ground staff whether Mr Somchai or a delegation of the Election Commission was among the list of passengers on the flight to Bangkok. Authorities however refused to give them details of passenger list. Shortly after all passengers boarded the Bangkok Airways flight, the angry red shirts stormed into the passenger terminal near the VIP lounge, demanding to know if Mr Somchai was among the passengers. A brief disorder happened as airport security officials tried to prevent the angy red shirts from intruding further into the departure area. The red shirts later retreated to the check-in counter of Bangkok Airways, blasting and scolding at the staff. They demanded again to expose names of passengers on the flight but were again denied. It was 30 minutes after the plane left the airport when they were allowed to look through the passenger list which was without Mr Somchai. They later dispersed. Prior to their dispersal, an electricity state enterprise employee showed up at the airport blowing whistle at the red shirts, accusing them of being trouble makers for their noisy protest at the airport that disturbed residents near the airport. After a brief exchange of hot words, the whistle blower agreed to leave before any untoward incident would happen. http://englishnews.t...egory/politics/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jitagawn Posted April 20, 2014 Report Share Posted April 20, 2014 Hmm more civil disorder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waerth Posted April 20, 2014 Report Share Posted April 20, 2014 I think the red shirts only proved that Somchai's remarks were even nice. They are much worse then low and rude .... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted April 21, 2014 Author Report Share Posted April 21, 2014 Tarit wants to arrest people for assault for blowing whistles. Why not arrest people for throwing poop? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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