Explosions kill 1, wound dozens in Bangkok

The Associated Press: Explosions kill 1, wound dozens in Bangkok

BANGKOK soldiers - and civilians dragged bleeding after a series of grenade attacks on Thursday in a new outbreak of violence in the chaotic capital of Thailand - the scene of a tense wait, weeklong between enormously by anti-demonstrators and security forces.

A Thai woman was slain and wounded 75 others, said the government Erawan alarm. 

Deputy Prime Minister Suthep Thaugsuban said the attackers fired five M-79 from a nearby area, where the battle against the government demonstrators camped in Red Shirt. But his brief statement at night on live television Thursday evening each channel seeed to come straight to the "red shirts" debt, and urged people who had protested against them to leave the area for her own safety. 


Abhisit Vejjajiva Prime Minister, whose "red shirts" wants to dissolve parliament and call elections, not a public performance. The red shirts are mostly in poor rural areas, supporters of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra and pro-democracy activists who oppose the military coup that ousted him in 2006 after months of demonstrations in the yellow jersey.

The "red shirts" believe that the government is illegal because Abhisit came to power under military pressure by a parliamentary vote after the controversial statements elected governments overthrown two pro-Thaksin.
The first three explosions occurred at about 8 hours on the mass transport elevated Skytrain Station on Silom Road, near the Patpong entertainment district, famous for its go-go bars. Pomegranate Punch two holes in the roof of the platform, and passengers were moved from the ladder away from the station by soldiers who were stationed there. At least two people were injured, but apparently not seriously. 

Explosion about 30 minutes later, two more occurred at an intersection full of demonstrators protesting against the "red shirts" and passersby. One exploded outside a sandwich shop near the entrance to a hotel entrance and the other a dozen meters (meters) from Silom Road, in a bank.  
 Chaos ensued, as dozens of injured were treated and taken to ambulances, while soldiers and police began clearing the area. The windshield was smashed in the sandwich shop and a pool of blood lay on his porch.
"The authorities carry out an investigation, but it is too early to give a conclusion," said government spokesman Panitan Wattanayagorn. "This is the work of terrorists, the government always has to get rid of. They are hidden in different areas." 


In an earlier outbreak of violence 25 people were slain and wounded more than 800 on April 10 when the Red Shirt Army tried to clear protesters from a camp in another part of the capital.
The casualties occurred when masked men opened fire on the soldiers with weapons of war, making a long street fight. The government is trying in this case the blame for the incident to "terrorists" who tried to enter the mainstream "red shirts to make, but not otherwise identified. 



Suthep, who leads the Centre for resolution of emergency management, expressed sorrow for the victims. "The government has called for measures to protect the population by sending security forces to protect people to determine," he said.
He asked people who protest against the "red shirts" to leave the area for their own safety. Many did, but a few dozen returned later to resume hurling stones and bottles at the Red Shirts, who built a formidable barrier of bamboo looking sharp sticks and old tires to the top of his perch guards.
Behind the line of red shirts "is their stronghold, 

which stretches over one mile (2 km) to another intersection, where tens of thousands of fans gather around a podium for speeches almost non-stop. They are camping in the streets of the capital for almost six weeks.
Against the Wall Red Shirt before the explosion were the trucks of police, dozens of riot police and several hundred anti-Red shirt.
The anti-Shirt Red group includes clerks, middle-class families, students, a number of low-wage workers and members of the yellow jersey, a group that supports the current government, which raged through Bangkok airport and the city two years ago seized. 

While some are actually harmed by the nuisance caused by the protests, many seem to be mainly political objections to the 'Red Shirts', as claimed, the movement is against the widely revered monarch of the country. A song called distributed to the supporters of right-wing hatred recorded tracks used in anti-communist campaign backed by the army of the 1970s. 

Sawasdee Siripan Nogsuan, professor of political science at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, said he would not speculate on who might be behind the attacks. "But the situation would be a good excuse for the government to force against demonstrators Red Shirt" he said. 

The emergence of rival groups and those who have spoken out against the Red Shirts have made the situation "more challenging", and the objectives are not clear hat he added. 

On Thursday, the army warned that time ran out for the "red shirts" to clean the streets, saying troops quickly suppressed. 


"For people hostage in Bangkok is not good," said army spokesman, Col. Sansern Kaewkamnerd the Red Shirts. "Your time to leave the area is low." The Army has several warnings to move to break the protests if not voluntarily. You are in violation of several laws, including a state of emergency.

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