Red Shirts leader shot, perhaps killed

[Chuai-Duai]

Increasing reports on Twitter indicate that major confrontation has begun between troops and Red Shirts. One of the leaders of the Red Shirts Lt Gen Khattiya Sawasdipol has been shot and some reports are saying he has died in hospital.

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Increasing reports on Twitter indicate that major confrontation has begun between troops and Red Shirts. One of the leaders of the Red Shirts Lt Gen Khattiya Sawasdipol has been shot and some reports are saying he has died in hospital.

Let's all pray that's the case. He is a seriously bad egg.

[Beachlover]

The car accident begins...

"He who lives by the sword..."

This is WAR:-

A rogue soldier and de facto military chief of Thailand's red shirt protest movement was shot and wounded near Bangkok's business area on Thursday night, his close aide told Reuters.

Khattiya Sawasdipol, a suspended army specialist in charge of security at an encampment occupied by thousands of anti-government demonstrators, was admitted to an intensive care ward after being shot, said the aide, who picked up Khattiya's cellphone.

Khattiya, better known as "Seh Daeng" (Commander Red) enjoys a cult following and has been dubbed a "terrorist" by Thailand's government, which accuses him of involvement in dozens of grenade attacks that have injured more than 100 people. (Reporting by Ambika Ahuja;

LMTU has his finger on the pulse as normal, no doubt some kind of 'Secret Weapon' ready to be launched.

More than likely he has a porta-potty stationed at the encampment and hence his first hand(or should I say knee?) reports.

While he's at the hospital having his cancerous tongue excised, he should just ask them to take off both his legs at the knee. That will make his activities at Tesco-Lotus much more convenient.

[Beachlover]

Quicker to have his head excised. Better result and no need for precision surgery.

According to the New York Times Seh Daeng was shot during an interview with a NYTime or IHT reporter and near the Silom/Rama 4 intersection.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/14/world ... 4thai.html

Dissident Thai General Shot; Army Moves to Face Protesters

Gen. Khattiya Sawatdiphol, a renegade Thai general also known as Seh Daeng, was shot minutes after this photograph was taken on Thursday.
Published: May 13, 2010


BANGKOK тАФ A renegade Thai general was shot in Bangkok on Thursday as the military planned to encircle the barricaded encampment of antigovernment demonstrators.


Gen. Khattiya Sawatdiphol, 59, better known as Seh Daeng, was allied with the protesters. He was struck in the head by a bullet during an interview with this reporter. The Associated Press reached an unidentified aide to the general who described his wound as тАЬsevere.тАЭ

The general, an incendiary figure who was in charge of security for the protesters, had been called a terrorist by the prime minister, who named him as the chief obstacle to a compromise plan to end a two-month sit-in here in return for an election in November. The latest violence is the most serious since a failed crackdown in April that killed at least 25 people.

Commanding his own paramilitary force of former Rangers, he was suspended without pay from the armed forces. A special committee was considering whether to strip him of his rank.

In an interview on Sunday, he denied being responsible for any violence. тАЬI deny!тАЭ he cried in English, with a laugh, when asked about the dozens of bombings that have set Bangkok on edge and about the mysterious black-shirted killers who escalated the violence on April 10 that killed 25 soldiers and civilians. тАЬNo one ever saw me.тАЭ

A tentative deal had been reached between the protesters and the government of Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, only to fall apart this week.

Witnesses heard a loud blast followed by bursts of automatic gunfire near the heavily guarded Silom area, which is close to the protestersтАЩ encampment, The Associated Press reported.

Any bets that he was bumped off with Prem's knowledge?