been watching this on spanish news and the bbc web site
very frighting for somebody like me.
im not booked until may 26, but if this continuies i will not go
simple, not putting my holiday or life in danger
will go else where
paperboy
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been watching this on spanish news and the bbc web site
very frighting for somebody like me.
im not booked until may 26, but if this continuies i will not go
simple, not putting my holiday or life in danger
will go else where
paperboy
This is not good , I have friends in Chiang Mai going to Bangkok on Tuesday and what will happen next week ? :pale:
People are dying , even a japanese journalist was killed tonight .
Lets hope it will calm down before Songkran.
You were saying? Obviously some of us are more attuned to what is going on in Thailand than others, albeit from afar. I will still be leaving for BKK on May 7.Quote:
Originally Posted by getyournobout
krobbie
You mean big sissies?Quote:
Originally Posted by paperboy
When people not involved in the clashes start getting killed...that's when it's time to start worrying.
Happening now ... at least 24 killed so far, overnight.Quote:
Originally Posted by Singapore Sexpat
You mean people died who were neither troops or red shirts, and not involved in the protests? Oh, really?Quote:
Originally Posted by Smiles
Touche. Misread. Really.Quote:
Originally Posted by Singapore Sexpat
"18 dead including 14 civilians, 4 soldiers and 825 injured in bloody clashes"
I guess that's an easy mistake Smiles, given that these trouble makers are called civilians and not what they really are. I am not saying that their grievances don't have some merit but I thought they said their party (UDD) was all about democracy? Funny way of showing it. In 9 months they get to vote, surely that is the time to have your say. At least that how it goes in the democracy I live in.
Let's face it. Not all the people are happy all the time but this is not how to achieve your goals. :violent1: IMHO.
krobbie
I think it's just soldiers, protesters and a journalist so far. Not civilians who stay away from the action. As long as you don't get a situation where someone is innocently standing on, say Silom Road where it's nice and quiet, then suddenly a rampaging mob charges through and he gets killed by soldiers chasing them... I would say it's semi-ok to be in Bangkok.
For the soldiers, it sucks they are getting killed and injured by their own countrymen. They're just doing their job. I heard the protesters lit a gas tank, rolled it at a line of soldiers and something like 50 of them were injured in the resulting blast... christ.
As for the protesters, if you're going to be in a mob that's killing, maiming and injuring soldiers, I guess you should be prepared to receive lethal force.
Really?... Then why do all this now? Why not wait 9 months?Quote:
Originally Posted by krobbie
I haven't followed the whole thing very closely so forgive my ignorance.