The Red Shirts have taken off the shirts and put on other colored shirts to make it harder for the police and army to catch them when they leave or enter the protest site. With no color on the shirts the protesters can hardly be arrested and it will make it more difficult for the army to crack down on them.
Swine Flue
Some of the Red Shirts have gotten swine flu inside the camp near world trade and they are treated at the police hospital of all places nearby.
No TV
Someone has distributed the signal of the state TV when the Thai PM was supposed to speak. He made a tape recording and before it broadcasted, everything went black for a few minutes. I think most of the people in Thailand thought that a coup was eminent.
Flip Flopping on crack down
The Army changes their views back and forward during the week regarding the eminent crack down. For now, it looks like they are supporting a crackdown.
Time is running out
The Red Shirts do not have manpower enough to march out again, most of the reds are tired and if they leave their camp the army can close it. Nevertheless, if they not push hard enough the Thai government might just let them stay there until they leave or get so few they cannot fight back. If the rain season comes soon the rest of the Red Shirts will probably leave. The governments on the other hand need to make the Red Shirts leave so they not look like total fools.
No Luxury bag is worth dying for
The Reds have closed down one of the most visited mall in Bangkok and people have stopped from buying luxury goods. However, the same Reds could never afford any of these bags. So will the Thai government and army want to kill people so that people can buy more luxury goods? The Reds will just come back in a few weeks or month and start all over.
No money worth dying for
I know you all heard that people paid to join the Red Shirts movement and I can reveal to you Thailand big secret that most people pay people from all camps not only Red Shirts get money to vote or demonstrate. However, the hard-core reds that are left now ready to die do not do it for the money.
Foreigners among the injured in the deadly blast that hit the BTS station at Sala Deng at Silom district yesterday evening. People had come to protesters against the Red Shirts further downtown in Bangkok when suddenly two grenades hit the BTS station injuring and killing people waiting for the train to come to the station.
At first, the police pointed fingers at the Red Shirts camp but later arrested people that had been outside Robinson department store near the BTS station. It is not clear at this moment what camp the bombers swear allegiance. The Police went down to the Red Shirt camp in the morning and ask them one more time to leave but they refused.
Some Yellow Shirt guards and kind of security force last night joined the protesters in Silom for the Yellow Shirts or PAD. They are the total opposite of the Red Shirts and want the power to belong to the people in Bangkok and to the elite that ruled Thailand for a long time now. Last time they demonstrated they blocked the airport for several days.
The Nation has today said that Thailand is going into a state of anarchy and chaos and I can agree on that. The Police did nothing to stop the protesters last night that provoke the redshirts. The Police or Army need to step in and stop any people that trying to create unrest in Thailand not only the Red Shirts.
The video below is from the BTS station and it shows some foreigners and Thai people injured and they getting first aid by soldiers from the Thai Army.
The Red Shirts or UDD have once more taken to the streets and are at this moment blocking the traffic in Bangkok. These are the roads they will march on:
Yommarat road
Petchaburi road
Ratchadapisek road
Ladprao road
Bangkapi road
Ramkamheng road
Rama 4 road
Silom road
Yaowarat (China Town) road and most shop in China town are closed due to this.
The Redshirts have been instructed not to hit back or scream back at the angry people in Bangkok and hope people from Bangkok will join them.
The Redshirts have promised not to take the way around the airport and to the Siriaj Hospital where the King of Thailand is staying.
Since the traffic is almost to a standstill in central Bangkok traffic going in and out from the city will off course be blocked as well.
If you do not have any business in Bangkok today and tomorrow do not go there.
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Are you in the risk of being locked inside your own apartment for a few days? What are the hotspots that the Red Shirts and the police will close off tomorrow?
If you need to travel from these areas tomorrow remember that you probably cannot get a taxi and you can probably not go out with car at all. The roads will be closed and nobody can go in and out from tomorrow at noon 12.00 until the time the Police and the Red Shirts goes away.
If your car or motorbike is parked outside in these streets you might consider moving it away to avoid damage.
Do not get angry at the police or the Red Shirts for blocking your way you have been warned about this now and just accept the fact and be sabi sabi.
If you do not want to stay inside your home for a few days then go to the sea side and relax.
