Monday, April 13, 2009

The Thai army has opened fire on the rioters in Bangkok.

Soldiers of the Thai army, started to disperse a demonstration in one of the main highways of Bangkok, opened fire on protesters. This morning on Monday reports Reuters. As a result of clashes injured at least 68 people, two of them are in critical condition, added to the medical service in Bangkok.
As highlighted in the press service of the army, the soldiers had opened fire on the demonstrators after they pelted the troops Molotov cocktails. When the military first fired several warning shots into the air, but the protestors did not have responded and have continued to resist the army.
Meanwhile, reported Agence France-Presse, Thai Army soldiers did not shoot at the demonstrators, but only fired warning shots into the air, resulting in members of the protest action had fled to adjacent streets.
The military operation to disperse the protest in the capital of Thailand, started about six am Monday local time (about 03:00 Moscow time). Reported that the Thai army unit a total of 400-500 people have begun to overshadow the demonstrators from the main highways of Bangkok, used against them, including tear gas. The protesters responded in a car tried to ram the ranks of the military, and then threw them "Molotov cocktails".
Riots, organized by the supporters of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, began in Bangkok on April 12. As a result of the ensuing clashes were slightly injured, Prime Minister of Thailand Aphisit Vetchachiva and his deputy. Bangkok state of emergency was declared in the troops entered the city.

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