BANGKOK ON THE BRINK OF CIVIL WAR?
May 18, 2010, 10:36 am
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Red Shirts on Silom Road
War zone. The brink of anarchy. Bangkok burning.
Front-page headlines from the past few days in the Bangkok Post which are in no way an exaggeration.
The anti-government protests by the United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD), or “Red Shirts”, have been going on for two months now, and friends and family back home who’ve seen dramatic news footage have enquired about my safety, to which I had always replied that “it looks much worse than it is”, and that I was completely safe so long as I stayed away from the demonstration zones.
Not anymore. (more…)
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