Red Shirts Set Bangkok Ablaze As Troops Storm Barricades
Bangkok was engulfed by fires and rioting today as defeated Red Shirt protesters vented their anger at a military crackdown with a burning and looting spree. As black smoke swirled across the Thai capital, the city’s stock exchange, a TV station and one of South-East Asia’s biggest shopping malls were among the buildings set ablaze. […]
Is Thaksin Funding Thai Protest – Al Jazeera
The top publicist for ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said today that he did not know how much his client was funding the violent street war on the streets of Bangkok. ‘I have no idea. You might as well ask how much is the government spending on bullets,’ said London based lawyer Robert Amsterdam. Amsterdam […]
Fears For More Violence As Red Shirt General Dies
The man who claimed he was appointed by ousted premier Thaksin Shinawatra to lead the military wing of the Bangkok anti-government protests died in hospital today from sniper wounds. Seh Daeng, the ‘Red Commander’ whose real name was major general Khittaya Sawasdiphol, died in hospital, bringing the death toll in five days of a government […]
PM Defiant As Army Snipers 'Shoot To Kill'
Swathes of the Thai capital were declared a ‘live firing’ killing zone by the army yesterday, as the death toll in Bangkok rose to 22 after days of violent protest.And last night Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva said his security forces would not retreat.As troops attempted to quell the trouble, they fired live rounds at hundreds […]
Red General Shot In Head During Face To Face Interview
A rogue army general who saw himself as a ‘Braveheart’ was last night shot by a sniper as he was giving an interview to a New York Times reporter in Bangkok.Major General Khittaya Sawasdipol had taken the side of the red-shirted anti-government demonstrators, organizing their defences in the centre of the city. He is on […]
Shot Protester 'Lit Up' Soldier With Laser Toy
Battle for Bangkok From ANDREW DRUMMOND, Bangkok, May 14 2010 Pictures: Andrew Chant Camera crowd over red-shirt ‘shot after lighting up soldier’ with laser Troops opened fire on anti-government demonstrators in Bangkok again today causing one fatality and injuring 23 as they tried to close gaps on a blockade to force the protesters into surrender. […]
Airlines Lied And Cheated Claim Angry Passengers
From Andrew Drummond, BangkokApril 26th Britons stranded in Bangkok since the Icelandic volcano erupted last night accused international airlines of being devious, dishonest, and telling outright lies, to avoid their responsibilities to their passengers.As some Britons slept for the eighth night at Suvarnabhumi International airport with only a trickle finding seats back to London the […]
The Twin Scales Of Justice – Briton Sent Back From Laos
FROM ANDREW DRUMMOND, BANGKOK The British prison inmate who fathered Samantha Orobator’s baby in a jail in Laos has been sent back to Britain as part of the new Prisoner Transfer Treaty with the communist country, it was confirmed today. But although Orobator will only serve only 18 months of her life sentence for drugs […]
Brits Flee Bangkok Carnage
From Andrew Drummond, BangkokApril 11 2010 Tourists, among them scores of Britons, joined a mass exodus from Bangkok today (Sunday) in the wake of bloody anti-government demonstrations in which 19 died and over 800 were injured. Millions headed to the country for the New Year holiday and to escape a city ravaged by red-shirted supporters of ousted […]
British Pensioner Who Abused Hill Tribe Children
FROM ANDREW DRUMMOND, BANGKOKMarch 30 2010Pictures: Berm, Chiang MaiRoger Pettit A British pensioner, who allegedly trawled the Northern capital of Chiang Mai for hill tribe children, today faces the rest of his life in jail after being seized on drugs and child sexual abuse and charges. Roger Leslie Pettit, 67, from Brighton, who police said had a history […]
