BANGKOK — Sporadic violence continued in the Thai capital on Friday as protesters challenged soldiers deployed around their encampment and fired homemade rockets at hovering helicopters. Troops and the protesters — the so-called red shirts — confronted each other Friday near the spot where the shooting of an anti-government general by a sniper on Thursday […]
Troops fire tear gas at red shirts protesters near Lumpini Bazaar on Rama IV road on Friday at 12.15pm in a first step to disperse the protests. The protesters in the area captured and vandalised two military fire trucks near the bazaar on Thursday night. They ripped the cannon from its moorings and used its […]
Thai security forces and anti-government protesters remained in a stand-off in Bangkok after clashes overnight in which one person died. Shots and bangs were heard overnight as security forces moved to cut power and seal off access to the large protest camp in the city centre. Earlier, a renegade general supporting the protesters was shot […]
WASHINGTON (AFP) – The United States Thursday closed its embassy in Bangkok and said it was “very concerned” about the violence between the Thai government and protesters there. “We’re very concerned, we’re watching it (the violence) very closely,” State Department spokesman Philip Crowley told reporters, adding the US embassy was closed to the public because […]
A dissident Thai General has been shot and seriously wounded, along with several other people at the site of an anti-government protest in Bangkok. VOA’s Daniel Schearf witnessed the shooting which followed a government threat to seal off the protest area to force weeks-long demonstration to end. Major General Khattiya Sawasdipol was shot in the […]
BANGKOK — A renegade Thai general was shot in Bangkok on Thursday as the military prepared to encircle the barricaded encampment of anti-government protesters. The general, Khattiya Sawatdiphol, 58, was struck in the head by a bullet during an interview with this reporter about 7 p.m. on the street in central Bangkok, near a park […]
Government forces will lay siege to the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship’s (UDD) protest site at around Ratchaprasong intersection from 6pm today, Centre for the Resolution of the Emergency Situation (CRES) spokesman Sansern Kaewkamnerd said on Thursday. Col Sansern said armoured personnel carriers (APCs) would be used to protect soldiers during the operation. Roadblocks […]
Thailand’s authorities vowed Wednesday to sever food and water supplies to opposition protesters camped in the heart of the capital as hopes faded for a resolution to the crippling standoff. The government also urged local residents to leave the area, saying they would restrict access as part of tough new measures against the thousands of […]
