Army was right to shoot

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Published: 22 Aug 2012 at 00.00
Newspaper section: News

Re: ''DSI probe frustrates army brass'' (BP, Aug 21).

Army chief Prayuth Chan-ocha has every right to feel peeved.

Even if the ''men in black'' were in fact drawn from the army, the police force, the rangers or any other regular unit, they were still clearly and effectively positioned to fire their weapons at the government forces whose responsibility it was to keep law and order at Ratchaprasong. In any culture that is called mutiny, the crime treason, and the penalty the most severe on the books.

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whatajoke
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Discussion 7 : 23 Aug 2012 at 00.047
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Lung Kip, you put it so succinctly well done! D6 Dao, you round it off with the other pertinent point: who stood to gain the most from casualties. I'm guessing 91 might even have been a disappointing figure. This is not suggest armed men within the red crowd were deliberately shooting their own, but by firing upon the army from an unarmed crowd, the inevitable was going ton happen. This should be the very basis of the DSI investigation, only the cowardly shoot from among civilians.
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Discussion 6 : 22 Aug 2012 at 10.056
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When you consider who had more to gain by shooting into the crowd at Ratchprasong the Army who would look terrible or the UDD soldiers who would create a body count and some sympathy its not hard to see who had motivation .
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Discussion 5 : 22 Aug 2012 at 10.015
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The true irony of 30 baht healthcare ,the rice scam and the rest of Thaksins bag of cheap tricks is that most of his voter base believe Thaksin is paying for it when in fact it is the taxpayer who they call names like the elite and have total disdain for .
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Discussion 4 : 22 Aug 2012 at 08.534
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On the surface Thaksin's schemes are deceptively attractive, like the Photoshop women in glossy magazines, but in practice the poor hardly seem to benefit, unlike himself and his well-connected friends and cronies, who no doubt have the headache of what to do with their windfalls. When it is all over, Thaksin will rue not considering the timeless truth that when the foundation of any enterprise lacks strong morality and public ethics, it inevitably crumbles and the edifice built upon it collapses. This may well be his legacy to mankind.
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Discussion 3 : 22 Aug 2012 at 07.413
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Absolutely Right Khun Kip!! Denying of overwhelming responsibility is part of the " Great Lie" strategy, ordered by the Thaksin PR machine and executed by his red mercenaries' leadership. It is cynical, it is shameless and it is so shallow. Even more despicable is the fact that some posters here truly have the insanity to pretend the soldiers should have answered to the red bullets with tear gas and to the red grenades with water cannons!
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Discussion 2 : 22 Aug 2012 at 07.282
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Yes, Thais need to remember what actually happened when Bkk was commandeered by dangerous rowdies. Military trained rogue fighters were killing authorities who were sent in to maintain order. Very serious scenario, which should not be obfuscated (by PT, Thaksin, The Reds), nor forgiven.
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Discussion 1 : 22 Aug 2012 at 04.391
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And yet there seems to be plenty of money for the failing rice scheme, useless tablet computers and flood controls that don't exist. Priorities people please.
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