A Thai demonstrator throws a molotov cocktail towards security forces during clashes in Bangkok Photo: AFP/GETTYThe number of dead from three days of street battles in Bangkok has risen to 35, including the first military death.
17 May 2010
Telegraph (UK)
"There were two more deaths last night including a soldier and a protester," said a member of the official emergency medical centre in Bangkok, where troops and anti-government "Red Shirt" protesters are locked in a tense confrontation.
The official said the number of wounded had risen to 244. Among the wounded were six foreigners, he said.
A 31-year-old air force member was shot while on patrol in the flashpoint Silom district, on the edge of the Red Shirts' fortified encampment, the official said, adding that he died in hospital.
"We cannot retreat now," Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva said in a televised statement, encapsulating the government's all-or-nothing campaign to end protests seeking to topple his fragile, six-party coalition.
Analysts and diplomats have said that the military had underestimated the resolve of thousands of protesters who had taken over a district of luxury hotels and shopping malls from April 3.
"Unless the government cracks down and does so decisively - and that's a big if - we are going to be seeing rioting and guerrilla warfare, possibly spreading out to other areas," said an Asian diplomat who declined to be identified.
A state of emergency has already spread to more than a quarter of the country after emergency decrees were declared in five more provinces, as violence erupted in the north and northeast.
At least 64 people have died and more than 1,600 have been wounded since the red shirts began their protest in mid-March.
A Red Shirt leader, Nattawut Saikua, called for a ceasefire and UN-moderated talks to end the violence.
The government dismissed the offer. "If they really want to talk, they should not set conditions like asking us to withdraw troops," said Korbsak Sabhavasu, the prime minister's secretary-general.
17 May 2010
Telegraph (UK)
"There were two more deaths last night including a soldier and a protester," said a member of the official emergency medical centre in Bangkok, where troops and anti-government "Red Shirt" protesters are locked in a tense confrontation.
The official said the number of wounded had risen to 244. Among the wounded were six foreigners, he said.
A 31-year-old air force member was shot while on patrol in the flashpoint Silom district, on the edge of the Red Shirts' fortified encampment, the official said, adding that he died in hospital.
"We cannot retreat now," Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva said in a televised statement, encapsulating the government's all-or-nothing campaign to end protests seeking to topple his fragile, six-party coalition.
Analysts and diplomats have said that the military had underestimated the resolve of thousands of protesters who had taken over a district of luxury hotels and shopping malls from April 3.
"Unless the government cracks down and does so decisively - and that's a big if - we are going to be seeing rioting and guerrilla warfare, possibly spreading out to other areas," said an Asian diplomat who declined to be identified.
A state of emergency has already spread to more than a quarter of the country after emergency decrees were declared in five more provinces, as violence erupted in the north and northeast.
At least 64 people have died and more than 1,600 have been wounded since the red shirts began their protest in mid-March.
A Red Shirt leader, Nattawut Saikua, called for a ceasefire and UN-moderated talks to end the violence.
The government dismissed the offer. "If they really want to talk, they should not set conditions like asking us to withdraw troops," said Korbsak Sabhavasu, the prime minister's secretary-general.
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Keep fighting, fight until you get what you want.
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