Baby at barricades of Thailand’s uncivil war
A SCREAMING toddler stands on a barricade of tyres, his upper body visible to the Thai soldiers looking through their gunsights as a protester reaches out to steady him.
The image shows the clearly terrified boy being used as a human shield by Red Shirt protesters besieged in the heart of Bangkok.
The video of the child was posted on YouTube as 5000 mainly rural protesters, including many women and children, remained surrounded by the military in a fortified encampment in the Thai capital.
