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Images taken on the day after the Royal Thai Army moved in cleared the Red Shirt movement from downtown Bangkok, Thailand. 20/05/2010.
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Images taken on the day after the Royal Thai Army moved in cleared the Red Shirt movement from downtown Bangkok, Thailand. 20/05/2010.
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Images taken on the day after the Royal Thai Army moved in cleared the Red Shirt movement from downtown Bangkok, Thailand. 20/05/2010.
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Images taken on the day after the Royal Thai Army moved in cleared the Red Shirt movement from downtown Bangkok, Thailand. 20/05/2010.
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Images taken on the day after the Royal Thai Army moved in cleared the Red Shirt movement from downtown Bangkok, Thailand. 20/05/2010.
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Images taken on the day after the Royal Thai Army moved in cleared the Red Shirt movement from downtown Bangkok, Thailand. 20/05/2010.
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Images taken on the day after the Royal Thai Army moved in cleared the Red Shirt movement from downtown Bangkok, Thailand. 20/05/2010.
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Images taken on the day after the Royal Thai Army moved in cleared the Red Shirt movement from downtown Bangkok, Thailand. 20/05/2010.
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Images taken on the day after the Royal Thai Army moved in cleared the Red Shirt movement from downtown Bangkok, Thailand. 20/05/2010.
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Images taken on the day after the Royal Thai Army moved in cleared the Red Shirt movement from downtown Bangkok, Thailand. 20/05/2010.
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Images taken on the day after the Royal Thai Army moved in cleared the Red Shirt movement from downtown Bangkok, Thailand. 20/05/2010.

One day after the army moved into the Red Shirt protester's encampment in the centre of the capital, sparking a night of violence in which 35 buildings were torched, residents of Bangkok were struggling to regain some sort of normality.

But the extension of the first curfew in 18 years was a sign that the chaos of recent months and days had not been banished by the extensive army deployment.

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warrimurf

Unfortunately I'm not there now I had to go back to work just before the big push.
Questions are.
Who shot the journalists and why?
Who really set fire to Central word?
If the water was working there would be no fire as Central has a sprinkler system, I know it had a good system as I spent a lot of time looking at it as my wife looked at fashion.
Who turned off the water?
The red's had the world's sympathy before the arson and lost it after the attacks.
Was it them or some other dark forces.
I don't know.
But I'm sure its not as simple as it looks.

Why did the rest of the world say nothing
Watch the international news, no countries commented on the situation, just reported what was going on.
If this was europe, Africa or USA there would be condemnation of excessive force and call for negotiation etc.
Thailand, one of the nicest places on earth but gets gets no comments or help from anyone.
Is that because "they" are waiting to see who get the upper hand so they can decide who to support?
I live here, I love Thailand and it's people.
Please Thailand try to live together.
No politicians of either side really care about anything except themselves.
Rise above it and restore your country to the place it belongs in our hearts.
It's a wonderful country with the nicest people I have ever had the honor of knowing.
Even with the trouble it's still the safest city I have ever been to and I wish it the best in the future
Anyone that has ever been there wants it to recover, it's just such a nice place.
What more can I say?

Murf

rcshreeyan

JAI HINDIA! good day, good luck! Hello Anamitra, Amazingly clear pictures thanks. The world democracy needs to change itself to perform purely for the people. We must find out what type of democracy we are following whether it is CAPITALIST DEMOCRACY OR THE PEOPLE'S DEMOCRACY. Today democracy is not free from party influence nor the constitution is. The voters give votes but the vital right of REPRESENTATIVE IS distributed by the whealthy party lobbies to rich social class. We need do include the process in the constitution so that the constitution directly gives the representative right to common people. All disturbances going on in the world whether it is social, economic or political because the incomplete democracy is at work and nobody is satisfied with it.