Bangkok Sniper Alley
Looks like citizens of all sides will take the law – and its restoration – into their own hands: Police deployed to keep security at the PAD areas (!) have “suspiciously” not been stationed there for a couple of nights. While the yellow PAD militia started rounding up “reds.” Leading to these events – guerilla techniques in the middle of Bangkok:
Early Thursday morning, October 30st, a grenade was lobbed against security guards of the People’s Alliance for Democracy at the Makkhawan Bridge, injuring ten of them, reports The Nation. About an hour after the bomb attack, a few gun shots were heard near Government House.
Sounds like some Bangkok reporting from Baghdad downtown. Worse to come? Oh, and a bomb was lobbed into the compound of the house of a Constitution Court judge. Bombs and gun fire attacks against the PAD … maybe you should avoid their territory at night. PAD guards will be killed everyday if they don’t stop occupying Govt House, a pro-Thaksin general says.
No guts to try the Korat way?
Scary stuff! Do you live near the action?
Is it dangerous for foreigners traveling to Bangkok now?
Bangkok remains a safest place. The chance of being struck down by an elephant is potentially higher.
Just avoid PAD areas at nights.
And don’t wear anything red anywhere nearby.
BangkokDan
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Goddamnit … And what about my (genuine) Manchester United t-shirt?
Too red I presume.
Much as I abhor futbawn, try wearing Scottish First Division’s red and yellow shirts: Glaswegians wouldn’t be afraid to wear those around Bangkok’s Govt Hse.