NOW LIVE TV: BKK this weekend PAD action updates

[travelerjim]

Recent events this Friday evening
and Saturday morning...from BKK:

WATCH THE ACTION ON ASTV 5 ...PAD parties at BKK airport!
(select ASTV5 and click to watch on your computer
(live video with sound)
NEWS 1 TV ...

http://www.siamtv.org/start.html

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The Nation just sms a message"

"That PAD agreed to negotiate
outcome of PAD exit from Suvarnabhumi (BKK) airport.
Should be clear before noon this Saturday."

And, The Nation reported the Police Chief
has been sacked (transferred):

AIRPORT IMPASSE
Shock transfer of police chief

Phatcharawat was urgently transferred in the middle of Suvarnabhumi crisis,
renewing doubts about Army chief's future

Police Commissioner-General Pol Gen Phatcharawat Wongsuwan was Friday
removed as the national police chief and seconded to an inactive post at the PM's Office.

The government appointed police inspector-general Pol Gen Prateep Tanprasert
as caretaker police commissioner-general.

Phatcharawat's removal came less then 24 hours after the police were made
to lead state of emergency operations to dislodge anti-government protesters
from the Suvarnabhumi and Don Muang airports.

Inevitably, the removal revived rumours about a military coup, as speculation
revolved around whether Army chief Anupong Paochinda would be the next transfer target.

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/2008/11 ... 089715.php

The Nation is also reporting:

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/breakin ... d=30089719

Heavily-armed police block main road to Bangkok airport

At 6:55 pm Friday, police equipped with SK automatic rifles were deployed
o block a main road to the Suvarnahbhumi International Airport.

Police set up a road block on the Lard Krabang- Suvarnabhumi Road and
did not allow any vehicle to pass through.

The Nation

AND:

The Nation is also reporting:


No negotiation: Sondhi declares


Sondhi Limthongkul, No-1 leader of People's Alliance for Democracy,
told protesters not to believe that the People's Alliance for Democracy
would give in and negotiate with police to move protesters out of the
Suvarnabhumi International Airport and Don Mueang Airport .

"PAD leaders will never negotiate with police," Sondhi told the crowd
at the government House.

Sondhi also warned police not to listen to orders from Interior Minister
Kowit Wattana, saying the People Power Party would be dissolved by the
Constitution Court after December 2 and the House would be dissolved
and Kowit would lose power.




More updates at:

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/

and

http://www.bangkokpost.com/


You can watch Thai TV and listen to Thai radio ...
by using these Thai websites...for TV and Radio in Thailand:

http://www.siamtv.org/start.htm

http://www.siamtv.org/start.html

http://www.maxnettv.tv/index.php

http://truemusic.truelife.com/home/play ... p?guid=15#

See the live video of PAD partying at BKK airports:

ASTV5 News1 and TOC ..click on the station logo and watch the action!

Channel 3 - 5 - NBT and more...





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Who do you believe? Sondhi or The Nation's reporting ???

Confusion and high stakes poker appears to be at play tonight in BKK.

tj

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[fedssocr]

I can't believe it took them until now to cut off the supply routes and the way for more protesters to get to the airport. Sondhi seems to go wherever he wants.

I wonder who the "important person" was who called him and told him to stop the airport siege...my guess is Prem. It's hard to believe he would be able to get away with defying HMK, so it must have been some one not as important as him.

I can't believe they haven't cut off the supply routes, the water & the electricity.

Then if they don't move out, send in the troops in night vision gear at 3:30 am.

At least they don't have to round them up, they're all in one place, outside Bangkok, surrounded by mostly fields. I wouldn't think an airport would make a very strategic place to front their 'Final Battle', except to cause the obvious disruption.

This might be more like picking off fish in a barrel. Really, where are they going to retreat to when the tear gas and bullets start flying?

I hope this doesn't get ugly, but it also doesn't look like PAD is going to back down. They seem hellbent on getting their way or a fight to the death.

OK. It's gone too long. I'm officially backing down on this one.

Occupying the Gov't House is novel way to stop a dodgy gov't from amending a constitution in the manner proposed but taking an airport HOSTAGE is not fair to people who have nothing to do with all of this.

The Tourists should confront the demonstrators and ask them to step aside.

I hope this doesn't get ugly, but it also doesn't look like PAD is going to back down.

Well I just delayed this week's departure for two weeks. I wanted to delay it anyway. But I REALLY do hope to get back by New Years Day.

Phone numbers everywhere were out of date but it didn't take long to answer and they made a deal on the penalty!

[cottmann]

My betting is that the occupation will be over by (or soon after) December 5th - the King's Birthday - so as not to embarrass him.

[fedssocr]

Doesn't Sondhi keep saying they're doing this for the king?

Now we see the cowardly police backing away and letting the PAD reinforcements go to the airport. Now they are holed up inside the terminal. It will be harder to dislodge them without significant damage now.

I have had a fantasy as well of the 100,000 stranded tourists marching on the airport and forcing the PAD out. If the "authorities" don't have the stones maybe we will have to do it ourselves.

Now the coward Sondhi is hiding behind small children and old ladies while he blusters about daring the police to come and get them. They should have kept him in jail when they locked him up before.

How could Thailand be more embarassed???? The whole world is caught somewhere between laughing at a country where the the police and army ignore the rightful orders of the legal government and horrorfied at the prospect of Thailand becoming a totally disfunctional failed state.

How could Thailand be more embarassed???? The whole world is caught somewhere between laughing at a country where the the police and army ignore the rightful orders of the legal government and horrorfied at the prospect of Thailand becoming a totally disfunctional failed state.

I think all of us would prefer that Thailand be a totally functional failed state, wouldn't we?