As predicted the problems in Thailand hit new heights today. The army moved in to the Din Dang intersection to remove the red shirt protestors.Eariler in the day, protestors outside Siam Paragon had comendeered an armoured personnel carrier, this seems to have motivated the army in to action. On the TV, the army can be seen firing in to and over the heads of the red shirt gang. It turned out the army were using training rounds, this must be true because the amount of rounds fired into the crowd would have left 100's dead!
The red shirts tried to drive buses into the army ranks, this really pissed the army off and the gloves came off and by the end of the day something approaching calm had desended on Bangkok. The Red shirts seemed to have moved back to Goverment House which is were their main camp is. A violent day that as made me consider for the first time cancelleing my trip to Thailand next month!
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