Bangkok - red shirt leaders surrender

Van Hellseek · 20 May 2010 at 01:20

Bangkok and about a third of the rest of Thailand have spent a first night under curfew after street protest leaders surrendered.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia_pacific/10127048.stm

djmc0 · 20 May 2010 at 01:32

What is your opinion?

My aunt lives in a Bangkok suburb, and she is relatively safe, but in essence I have to say I agree with the red shirts, the people in charge of Thailand have been corruopt for too long. And so has their way of voting.

Robbo · 20 May 2010 at 01:33

I read the title as - "shirt lifters surrender"

Skull · 20 May 2010 at 04:42

Yeah the curfew in Bangkok was highly inconvenient, I ended up riding around on an imitation Harley Davidson motorbike taxi because everyone was rushing to get home. Huge column of smoke in the sky as Central World burned

Andr3w · 20 May 2010 at 06:16

Robboftw said:
I read the title as - "shirt lifters surrender"

Van Hellseek · 21 May 2010 at 02:37

Skull said:
Huge column of smoke in the sky as Central World burned

Isn't central world the one with the Aquarium in the basement? Guess they must have moved all the fish somewhere now, if any survived.

Very upsetting to see the pics of the devastation.

Sugar Free · 21 May 2010 at 03:27

There's an aquarium in the basement of the Siam Paragon dept. store I think.

Van Hellseek · 21 May 2010 at 03:47

Sugar Free said:
There's an aquarium in the basement of the Siam Paragon dept. store I think.

Oh that must be what I was thinking of then. Been a while since I went to either of them.

Skull · 24 May 2010 at 05:00

Aye, Central World is for rich people, Paragon is for very rich people, hence the Aquarium. The Thai government is currently having a go at blaming a British man for the arson...

Van Hellseek · 24 May 2010 at 05:05

Skull said:
Aye, Central World was for rich people

Fixed.

The Thai government is currently having a go at blaming a British man for the arson...

Interesting... How did you hear about this? Got any links?

the shadow · 24 May 2010 at 07:20

http://www.philippinesnews.net/story/638292

Zip · 24 May 2010 at 07:52

So whos in the right and whos in the wrong with all this?

Fair enough you can protest, but the way the red shirts did, Ie Rioting, Blocking off Hospitals and with some members being armed is just not right.

So who is the most wrong in all of this?

Van Hellseek · 25 May 2010 at 06:03

the shadow said:
http://www.philippinesnews.net/story/638292

Thanks.

I can kind of believe it too. I can picture some drunken English skinhead ***** egging them on, calling "Yeah burn it down!!". Doesn't mean he's to blame for it though. But it wouldn't suprise me that some ****head thought it was funny. You get some real nobheads in Bangkok. That's for sure.
They treat Thailand like it's Ibiza, or some cheap spanish beach resort. :/

Zip said:
So whos in the right and whos in the wrong with all this?

Nobody. Welcome to politics.

Fair enough you can protest, but the way the red shirts did, Ie Rioting, Blocking off Hospitals

I didn't see reports of red shirts blocking off hospitals. Seems unlikely as healthcare is one of the things they're fighting for.

and with some members being armed is just not right.

The majority were unarmed. And even those who were armed mostly had little other than slingshots.

Skull · 26 May 2010 at 03:29

He means when the reds said they thought they saw soldiers in the hospital and large numbers of them "investigated" it, causing considerable disruption to the hospital.

Shame the reds didn't quit while they were ahead and had the election secured. They subsequently demanded the man responsible for the april crackdown be arrested (right, like that would happen) and refused to leave. Destroyed their credibility and they ended up going home with nothing and being blamed for a lot of arson. Like a Deal or No Deal contestant turning down a £249,000 offer because they thought they could get £260,000 and walking away with nothing.