Red shirt remembrance rallies set in April, May

Red shirt rallies set for April 10

Published: 13 Mar 2013 at 22.00
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The red shirts' United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) on Wednesday announced it will organise events to mark the third anniversary of Bangkok clashes on April 10 and May 19, 2010.

UDD chair Tida Tawornseth said the red shirts will hold a religious service at the Democracy Monument near Satri Witthya School on Ratchadamnoen Avenue in the morning of April 10. There will be a performance in memory of the bloody event in the afternoon and a political meeting in the evening with a Hyde Park theme.

Similar activities including a photo exhibition will be held on May 19 at the Ratchaprasong intersection.

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g.manont
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Discussion 49 : 18 Mar 2013 at 21.1049
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Tida wouldn't get any red shirts from E-san, KP just confirmed that.

Power play ? Personal clashes ?

Your guesses are as good as mine !

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Discussion 48 : 15 Mar 2013 at 21.5048
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D.46.banmebkk - You will have a person or two to criticise your comment. But you are right , the warning is going in through NUMB brain and out , no consideration.

Mister facts_only next to you ( or is that a SHE ? ) already doing so !

Please disregard his/her comment. It's like you talk to a ... ( Nah, I better not say, it's not worth it )

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Discussion 47 : 15 Mar 2013 at 20.4947
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banmebkk 46 - "Many of the victims shot during War on Drugs were shot without warning, plain clothes policemen with guns chased after people - many innocent people where shot because they feared for their lives and ran and were shot mistaken for drug dealers."
Would this also possibly be the case during the 2010 clashes, considering not a single person who was shot was armed?

"I guess you think 100 protesters lives is worth more than 2500."
I never said such a thing.
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Discussion 46 : 15 Mar 2013 at 17.0546
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@facts only - Most of the protesters who were shot were warned to leave and had 2 month notice, most were fighting back at the army. Yes I do think army should be partly responsible for the death. Many of the victims shot during War on Drugs were shot without warning, plain clothes policemen with guns chased after people - many innocent people where shot because they feared for their lives and ran and were shot mistaken for drug dealers. 2500 death vs 100 deaths, you pick which is more serious. I guess you think 100 protesters lives is worth more than 2500.
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Discussion 45 : 15 Mar 2013 at 09.1545
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brilliant 44 - Hypothetically speaking, if TS was fully responsible for Tak Bai and the drug war deaths, what about those who carried out those orders? Do you feel they are partly responsible and hence should be punished, too?
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Discussion 44 : 15 Mar 2013 at 06.1744
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Since Thaksin had pretty much declared himself the grand poobah of everything including the South, the deaths at Tak Bai fall squarely on his shoulders. As do the 2,500 - 3,000 during his "war on drugs" and those at Krue Se.
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Discussion 43 : 14 Mar 2013 at 22.3343
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brilliant 41 - "See Tak Bai and you have your answer."
Who broke up the Tak Bai protest? Who fired live rounds into the protesters? Who stripped the protesters? Who stacked up the protesters in military trucks? Where were they transported to and detained? Who gave the orders?

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"The iron-fisted manner employed by the military in its handling of the protest in Tak Bai district of Narathiwat on Oct 25, 2004 resulted to the death of 85 ethnic Malay Muslims, of whom 78 died of suffocation while being trucked to a detention centre from the protest site." - BangkokPost, 25 Oct 2012

Could the same questions/answers be applied to 2010?
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Discussion 42 : 14 Mar 2013 at 21.4842
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Reds are amazing. They view themselves as the voice of the poor and downtrodden and hate rich, elitist, corrupt people. Then they worship a rich, elitist, corrupt person.
Make sense to anyone else besides reds?
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Discussion 41 : 14 Mar 2013 at 21.4641
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facts_only - ""Next time the red-shirts occupy the streets give them one hour notice to disperse – or else." "Should Thaksin follow this policy if you protest against him?"

See Tak Bai and you have your answer.
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Discussion 40 : 14 Mar 2013 at 11.4140
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@android #35: But obviously the “majority of all the thai voters [who do] not like the minor group elites who aggregate inside the bkk city” have no problem with spending all the money which is produced by the hard working tax-payers in the middle of Bangkok.
I know you have a right to go to any part of the country and that is perfectly fine with me. But why do you have to interrupt the work of “the minor group elites who aggregate inside the bkk city”? Imagine all the money which we don’t produce and which you can’t spend if you occupy the city again.
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