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| Thai General Khattiya, Red Shirt Backer, Is Shot in Head |
| 2010-05-13 |
| The Thai general popularly known as Seh Daeng has never been shy about talking to the press, even if he is coy about owning up to what he has been charged with: providing security for the Red Shirt protest movement and allegedly fielding a death squad to counter death squads associated with the government. Major General Khattiya Sawatdiphol has been the swashbuckling, profanity-spewing field marshal of the protest movement that has virtually shut down the center of the capital, Bangkok, and withstood military assaults for five weeks. But on Thursday, as he was talking to a reporter from the International Herald Tribune, Seh Daeng was struck in the head by a bullet, an incident captured on video, and rushed to a hospital as the military appeared to have surrounded the Red Shirt encampment. |
| Posted by:ed |
| #6 Phil, you're reduced to simply repeating yourself already??? Weak! And re: "His party won every unrigged election in the last 10 years by a huge margin. The Thai electorate appear to have no doubts about who is the best choice to run the country." Unrigged? I guess that would be ZERO elections then? His party is notorious for naked vote-buying. And guess where they do the buying? Isan, where most of these protesters come from. Most Thais are loyal to the King and the government and abhor the kind of confrontations going on now. The protesters are a national embarrassment, organized and funded only by Shinawatra and his minions. |
| Posted by: Scooter McGruder 2010-05-13 22:41 |
| #5 The current government came to power in a coup, rigged and stole subsequent elections, and is now assasinating opponents. A bad day for Thailand. Shinawatra was the richest man in Thailand before he entered politics. Worth well over a billion dollars. I doubt he entered politics for the money. His party won every unrigged election in the last 10 years by a huge margin. The Thai electorate appear to have no doubts about who is the best choice to run the country. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2010-05-13 22:31 |
| #4 Toxin was, what? Tough on the muslim insurgency? I don't think so. The current is barely better, but hey.... |
| Posted by: Frank G 2010-05-13 21:44 |
| #3 The current government came to power in a coup, rigged and stole subsequent elections, and is now assasinating opponents. A bad day for Thailand. Shinawatra was the richest man in Thailand before he entered politics. Worth well over a billion dollars. I doubt he entered politics for the money. His party won every unrigged election in the last 10 years by a huge margin. The Thai electorate appear to have no doubts about who is the best choice to run the country. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2010-05-13 21:35 |
| #2 My take: this guy was a seditious traitor, and deserved to get shot. I've finally decided the gov't is right, and the protesters are in the wrong here. These stupid poor people are screwing up the whole country in the name of Shinawatra, who was a competent P.M., but whose true genius was as a kleptocrat -- pocketing billions in state assets while in power. These ignorant Isan protesters need to take down the barricades, go home, and patiently wait for the next election. |
| Posted by: Scooter McGruder 2010-05-13 20:52 |
| #1 swashbuckling days are over, d*ckhead |
| Posted by: Frank G 2010-05-13 18:20 |