Saturday, 4 February 2012
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Thai troops clash with protesters
Monday is the traditional Songkran Festival – the Thai New Year and the country’s most joyous holidays, however, it has been marked with escalating violence in Bangkok, as security forces clash with anti-government protesters.
Soldiers moved into the city centre early Monday morning to disperse the red-shirted supporters of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra.
Army spokesman Sansern Kaewkamnerd said negotiations between the troops and demonstrators broke down after the soldiers were attacked by protesters.
The army fired warning shots in response and sprayed the crowds with water cannons and tear gas, after the protestors set a bus on fire at a main intersection in Bangkok.
Around 70 people were injured, some of which suffering from bullet wounds.
On Sunday, former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who was ousted in a 2006 military coup, urged his supports to carry out a ‘people’s revolution’.
On Saturday, the ASEAN summit, scheduled to have taken place in the resort city of Pattaya, was cancelled after demonstrators broke into the venue. Leaders had to be evacuated by helicopter from Pattaya.
The emergency measures imposed afterwards did not stop a mob from attacking Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva’s car on Sunday, which left his chauffeur and secretary injured. The Prime Minister escaped unhurt.
The government said on Monday that it will take measures to secure major airports and sea ports during the crackdown.
‘This is very normal, routine procedure during the emergency,’ Panitan Wattanayagorn, the Government spokesman, said in a live television address on Monday.
Last November, the two main airports of Bangkok were shut down by protesters for more than a week, leaving hundreds of thousands of passengers stranded and severe damages to the country’s economy.
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