Reds, yellows clash in Bangkok

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Published: 25 Sep 2012 at 18.03
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Hundreds of red-shirt and yellow-shirt supporters clashed outside the police Crime Suppression Division offices on Phahon Yothin road in Bangkok on Tuesday.

The rival colour-coded protesters gathered after police summoned for questioning a former female teacher who publicly accused red-shirt key supporter Darunee Kritbunyalai of defaming the royal institution last month.

The woman was told to report for questioning on Friday, but her lawyer was to go and see the CSD on Tuesday. Her reporting appointment was postponed to Oct 29 following today's clash.

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johninbkk
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Discussion 33 : 27 Sep 2012 at 22.1533
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heartie 27 - The multi-colors joined with the PAD during that protest.
brilliant 28 - I passed it off as propagandic spin by this paper, the same as this article. The words written and the videos/pics of the event don't match. Even if it's true, you can only cry wolf so many times until you're ignored. I didn't comment because I didn't know all of the facts, as android #30 points out.
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Discussion 32 : 26 Sep 2012 at 21.5132
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android, the story said "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"

No jumping to conclusions necessary.
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Discussion 31 : 26 Sep 2012 at 21.1731
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android - based on the BP story: 1. man had heart attack, 2. red shirts blocked road and did not allow ambulance to pass, 2. man dies. No conclusion to reach.
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Discussion 30 : 26 Sep 2012 at 07.3430
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Discussion 28 brilliant : don't jump to your own amateur conclusion so soon that the heart attack patient was died due to a delay treatment. You haven't read the autopsy report, have you?
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Discussion 29 : 26 Sep 2012 at 07.2329
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"Let's just give Thailand to the red-shirts because the police can't do anything," shouted one of the yellow-shirts.

Totally agree that this arrogant yellow shirt that the police should do something. At least the police should arrest and prosecute the yellow shirt who smashed the red pickup's windscreen.
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Discussion 28 : 26 Sep 2012 at 04.5328
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johninbkk - well, nobody died of a heart attack because they couldn't get to the hospital, did they. Where were your comments on that story. Nothing you could spin or lie about so you avoided it?
200 reds and 50 yellows and the yellows won? Good for them.
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Discussion 27 : 26 Sep 2012 at 02.0127
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Who are the white shirts? Have the yellow shirts changed colors? What happened to the pink shirts? Multi-colored shirts? Is is safe to wear ANY colored shirt?
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Discussion 26 : 26 Sep 2012 at 00.1726
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It's clear by watching the youtube videos online of what actually happened. I see who has blood on their face, who is laughing at the injured, who attacked the other side to steal their flags and set the flags on fire, who threw bricks and damaged a vehicle with weapons. The videos clearly show who the real aggressor is, and they don't look so "nervous and scared" to me . . . Whatever happened to 'News you can trust'?
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Discussion 25 : 25 Sep 2012 at 23.3525
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The PAD’s lawyer went to the police station because he had an appointment concerning a defamation case. He was accompanied with few yellow shirts supporters.
But what was the motive of the red shirts to come? None! But only a provocation!
It’s the same kind of story that at the PAD seminar in Ubon Rachatani last Sunday! The red shirts tried to disturb the meeting.
And isolating the footage of the man in white breaking the windshield, from the rest of the chronology of the clash is wrong because it’s pulled out of the context.
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Discussion 24 : 25 Sep 2012 at 23.2824
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From the photos and the video, there was a clear need for the police to step in but they did nothing. Last month, in Los Angeles a Thai yellow shirt mob started going crazy ass bonkers until the police started putting people in handcuffs. That quieted the mob down in a hurry. Thais are a very passionate people but throwing a few of the more unruly ones in the pokey may quell some of that passion. Unfortunately, people think that they can get away with anything nowadays.
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