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Reds Seize Insurrection Intersection For Afternoon
Monday, 20 September 2010, 10:12 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- To mark the fourth anniversary of Thailand's 2006 coup, thousands of pro-democracy Red Shirts on Sunday (September 19) seized Bangkok's most luxurious intersection, and mourned the 91 Reds who died during clashes earlier this year when ... More >>
Viktor Bout & Thaksin in the Sky With Sirichoke?
Thursday, 2 September 2010, 4:32 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Suspected Russian weapons smuggler Viktor Bout, who is fighting against extradition to the U.S., said a Thai Parliamentarian asked him how to "intercept" the private jet of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra so the fugitive politician ... More >>
Moscow, Bangkok Argue On Extraditing Viktor Bout
Friday, 27 August 2010, 11:37 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva is trying to repair damaged relations with the Kremlin after Moscow's foreign minister condemned a decision to extradite a suspected Russian weapons smuggler, Viktor Bout, from Bangkok to New ... More >>
Thailand's Prime Minister & Military Unite
Wednesday, 4 August 2010, 12:02 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva and the military are displaying a public show of unity, as the army prepares to install a hawkish commander after they defeated on May 19 a nine-week insurrection by "terrorist" Red Shirts. Army ... More >>
Thailand's PM & Military Unite After Crushing Reds
Tuesday, 3 August 2010, 3:41 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva and the military are displaying a public show of unity, as the army prepares to install a hawkish commander after they defeated on May 19 a nine-week insurrection by "terrorist" Red Shirts. More >>
Thailand: Red Shirts Struggle to Survive Crackdown
Tuesday, 13 July 2010, 1:01 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- To prevent another urban insurrection, new CCTV cameras will eyeball streets where 90 people died, mostly civilians, and 1,400 were injured when the military battled Red Shirt protesters and crushed their bamboo barricades in ... More >>
Thailand Freezes Accounts to Hit Red Shirts
Wednesday, 23 June 2010, 2:21 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Thailand's military-backed government has frozen bank accounts belonging to wealthy suspected supporters of Bangkok's bloody insurrection, amid fears that the Red Shirts are plotting revenge after their bamboo barricades were ... More >>
Bangkok Burns After the Army Crushes Barricades
Thursday, 20 May 2010, 8:45 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Red Shirt protesters allegedly set fire to 40 buildings including luxury shopping malls, banks, the Stock Exchange and offices, after losing their stronghold when soldiers used armored personnel carriers to crush their barricades, ... More >>
Reds' Weapon of Choice: Burning Barricades
Tuesday, 18 May 2010, 6:48 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Black smoke billows from burning tires in the streets, creating small volcanoes fed by angry Red Shirt protesters armed with Molotov cocktails, slingshots and fireworks against trained snipers and inexperienced troops. Survival amid Bangkok's ... More >>
"Seh Daeng" Denies Leading a Death Squad
Tuesday, 11 May 2010, 6:05 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- He boasts of killing 20 Thai communists and fondly recalls working with the CIA, but denies suspicions that he leads a death squad, involved in bombings and shootings to help the Red Shirts cripple Bangkok. Major General Khattiya "Seh ... More >>
Two Faces Appear Behind Bangkok's Bamboo Barricade
Wednesday, 28 April 2010, 11:26 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Two Thai faces appear behind the sharpened bamboo poles and hundreds of car tires which form lengthy menacing barricades, now stinking of urine, rotten food and other debris, along Bangkok's busy downtown streets. The face of ... More >>
Finding "Terrorists" in the Thai "Banana Republic"
Friday, 16 April 2010, 5:04 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Searching among bloodstained streets and grainy videos, investigators are trying to identify a handful of mysterious, black-clad men who fired assault rifles and possibly grenade launchers during Bangkok's clash on April 10 which left ... More >>
Country Joe's "Fish" Opposes US War In Afghanistan
Thursday, 15 April 2010, 11:28 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- When Country Joe and The Fish performed their famous satirical protest song "Fixin' To Die" during the 1960s, they influenced many people to oppose America's disastrous Vietnam War. More >>
Red Shirts Smear Human Blood & Demand Election
Monday, 12 April 2010, 10:54 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- After smearing human blood on the gates of official buildings and the prime minister's home, and using the red fluid to paint graffiti on banners, Red Shirt protesters rejected on Monday (March 29) the government's offer to hold ... More >>
U.S. Surveillance Blimp Fights Harsh Criticism
Tuesday, 16 March 2010, 4:38 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- An Arlington, Virginia-based company is defending its harshly criticized US $ 9.7 million sale of a helium-filled blimp, equipped with infrared thermal cameras, to Thailand's army for hunting Islamist guerrillas in the south. ... More >>
U.S. & Thai Military Targeted by Anti-Coup Reds
Monday, 22 February 2010, 3:13 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- The Commander of the U.S. Army Pacific, Lt. Gen. Benjamin Mixon, predicted a coup was "unlikely" during the Pentagon's military training exercise on Thai soil, but a powerful Red Shirt opposition movement has now targeted ... More >>
Thai Military Wants US Satellites to Hunt Rebels
Saturday, 21 November 2009, 4:52 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Thailand's military wants the U.S. to provide satellite equipment and imagery so it can hunt thousands of Islamist separatists who are killing Thai troops and civilians with hidden roadside bombs in the south. More >>
America Won't Lift Sanctions Unless Suu Kyi Freed
Monday, 9 November 2009, 9:54 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Burma must free Aung San Suu Kyi from house arrest and allow her to participate in a nationwide election, otherwise the vote will not be credible and U.S. economic sanctions will not be lifted, a U.S. State Department official ... More >>
Thailand and Cambodia Argue About Thaksin
Sunday, 1 November 2009, 10:33 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Thailand and Cambodia have descended into a loud political feud about Bangkok's 2006 coup, and Thailand's current threat to demand the extradition of its fugitive former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra. More >>
Thailand & Cambodia Argue About Thaksin & the Coup
Friday, 30 October 2009, 6:07 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Thailand and Cambodia have descended into a loud political feud about Bangkok's 2006 coup, and Thailand's current threat to demand the extradition of its fugitive former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra. The rift between the two ... More >>
