Re: Going all the way (The BKK Post)

"maxwell" <mmmaxwell@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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pg wrote:
Just got back from a redshirt meeting in Chiang Mai, all sorts of
rumours. A bunch of people
were sent off to City Hall "to protect the
PM" - seems they believe a coup is imminent. Who knows. No violence
before I left around
11.30 pm Thai time, no sign of any PAD supporters in fact.
pg

Was this a rumour?

PAD dad killed in North
Thursday November 27, 2008 CHEEWIN SATTHA

CHIANG MAI : The father of a People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD)
supporter was killed
yesterday during a clash between pro- and anti-government groups at a
housing estate in Muang
district.

Cheta Jiempatana was shot dead when around 100 people wearing red shirts
stormed Moo Ban Raming
Niwet, where a Chiang Mai PAD leader lives. Witnesses said a quarrel
turned into a melee and a
gunshot was heard.

If it's the same incident, late Wednesday a 60 year old local radio owner
was killed in that locality. A farang) friend of mine who was there said
that he was in a van that tried to drive at speed through a cordon of
red-shirts, but was pulled out of his cab and set upon. He died from
injuries sustained in the beating, but there were no gunshot wounds.

Chiang Mai, the hometown of convicted prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra,
is a stronghold of the
pro-government group Rak Chiang Mai 51. However, many people in the
province support the PAD
and wear its symbolic yellow shirt.

People wear yellow shirts because of the royalty link, not necessarily for
the PAD association. PAD doesn't have much support here or in surrounding
areas - witness the fact that they had to bus in a few hundred supporters
all the way from Bangkok to bolster any demos in Chiang Mai.

In fact over the past week, in and around Chiang Mai, I haven't seen a
SINGLE yellow shirt - not one - outside of the PAD stronghold mentioned
above.

I've been outside Somchai's residence in Mae Rim just north of CM today.
Quiet and friendly amongst the red-shirts there, although there is
considerable nervousness. I'll add a blog and photos about it soon, want to
drive back up there later and see how things develop. Somchai's earlier TV
appeal to PAD will fall on deaf ears. The police were totally ineffective at
the airport in Bangkok earlier today - even had their riot gear taken from
them, and one policeman abducted. It's beginning to look like Somchai is
running out of options.

pg
http://frogblog-thaidings.blogspot.com/


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