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Patient dies after reds block road

Published: 23 Sep 2012 at 19.57
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A patient suffering from a heart attack died as the ambulance he was in was delayed by traffic congestion at a red shirt rally against a yellow shirt-sponsored seminar in Ubon Ratchathani on Sunday, reports said.

About 300 supporters of the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) gathered in front of Sunee Grand Hotel in Muang district which was hosting a political seminar held by the People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD). The event was held to criticise the administration of the Pheu Thai-led government.

The group led by Chamroonsak Chantaramai used loud speakers to disrupt the seminar and deliver verbal attacks on PAD co-leaders including Maj-Gen Chamlong Srimuang. They also criticised the hotel management for allowing the yellow shirts to organise the event, which they said was an insult to the red shirts in the province.

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sunshine51
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Discussion 48 : 24 Sep 2012 at 17.5448
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abbub, unlike you, I don't fancy myself as a voice of reason or any other kind of voice, just one person who occasionally voices his opinion. I'm not here to judge others and I don't think you should either. All I can say is that if you constantly, as you do, try to defend this corrupt government you leave yourself open to such criticism.
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Discussion 47 : 24 Sep 2012 at 17.0747
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SUNSHINE: welcome to your club here at the BP comments section. Well, may I ask you one simple question, and you can answer yes...or you can answer no. From the precious comments, I copied and pasted the following remarks. I want to ask you, do you think they are voices of reason:

red trash - selfish oafs - shoot the lot of the UDD - mob rules - bring back a machine gun and take their soul too - No morals, no ethics - no education...only emotional carnage...commonly in red color throughotu the country - Tida..swelling with pride - Red Shirts...burn down buildings, kill people - the red purge! It is coming! -

(this one is "good): rontorr, typical red shirt, blame the patient for choosing the wrong ambulance company!!!! - (Rontor never said that)

They refused to give way to an emergency vehicle ( how do you know this? You don't. The ambulances have radios and should have been informed)
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Discussion 46 : 24 Sep 2012 at 16.1446
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abbub d42-Just wondering why red shirts have to take it upon themselves to try and break up a meeting of PAD that was not held in public space but in a hotel that was booked for the occasion?
Why they have to confront the hotel management about this meeting which is none of their business?
Why they have to assault people inside the hotel including the gardener who was only doing his job?

What of the 300 of Thaksins' police force who were there to keep order but apparently did nothing of the sort. Then there is the heart attack victim who could not get to the hospital on time. All these events seem to have occurred because the red shirts objected to a private meeting of the PAD behind closed doors.

These are the sort of events that tend to get people who DON'T love Thaksin and his whole red shirt intimidation process a bit irate. The red shirts were breaking the law, the PAD were not but I'm sure the police will do zip about it. And that is called Thaksin-ocracy.
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Discussion 45 : 24 Sep 2012 at 15.2145
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disc.42. surely you're not referring to yourself are you?????
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Discussion 44 : 24 Sep 2012 at 14.5844
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300 police officers for 300 supporters.. and they could not clear the road to let the ambulance past..?

Should the leader of this demonstration not be arrested for involuntary manslaughter..? or somehting to that effect
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Discussion 43 : 24 Sep 2012 at 14.5743
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@abbub - Most people who comment here that don't approve of the red shirts actions, were the same ones who voice their disapproval of the PAD as well. No need to say the PAD did it too, just because the PAD did does not mean the red shirts are any better or excusable for their actions.
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Discussion 42 : 24 Sep 2012 at 13.5642
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JOHN 49 D40 write: "Another example of Thaksin-ocracy at work where any dissenting opinions must be crushed."

Funny you should say that, and my dissenting voice is being crushed by the red shirt haters thumbs down.

Dissent is something they cannot stand in the comments section. Only "yes men" allowed to enter the circle of those who rule the roost here.

A voice of reason? Silence it...
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Discussion 41 : 24 Sep 2012 at 13.4641
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Abbub, it must indeed be frustrating when 90% of the readership condemns the continuous red violence, terror and intimidation....Well, you are not alone, we are frustrated too to see that there are still some supposedly-intelligent people playing the " Big Lie" by continuing to pretend the reds were NON violent " victims"and did not bring all these victims upon themselves....
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Discussion 40 : 24 Sep 2012 at 13.0540
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Another example of Thaksin-ocracy at work where any dissenting opinions must be crushed. Will these reds ever face prosecution over this latest shameful event? Not even the slightest possibility. If this government ever controlled the army like they do the police force, then Thailand is sure to 'progress' along the same path as Hun Sens' family business which is called Cambodia.
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Discussion 39 : 24 Sep 2012 at 12.3039
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CRISMANGO D19 "George Orwell is looking down up you all with a wide smirk across his face..."

This may be true, but he is smirking at you and your own hate-filled anti-red shirt, twisted rhetoric. The first death a few years ago, a red shirt who came too naer a PAD rally. Two PAD body guards attacked him, shot him through the neck and left him to bleed to death in the street. Any comments?
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