Two protests, two very different outcomes
Re: “Abhisit claims exoneration in red-shirt crackdown”, The Nation, yesterday.
No, you got let off on a technicality and the bureaucratic shuffle.
Ninety or so people dead, and neither accountability nor responsibility.
I am speechless.
Samui Bodoh
What about blaming the red shirts. I seem to remember it
was them who started burning buildings, threatening people, shooting people.
I am speechless that red-shirt culprits and leaders we’re never brought to justice. And speechless so many conveniently want to forget that part.
hansnl
Red-shirt leader “Nattawut Saikua … complained that the matter got thrown back and forth, going nowhere after the court refused to consider it last week”, The Nation reports.
Speaking of people with “bloodstained hands”, what about the people like Nattawut that brought those “victims” to Bangkok in the first place? Bring your one-litre bottles and we will fill them with gasoline so that you can burn the country down. Just run people down with your cars, after all it is just a traffic offence. Truckloads of “protesters” passing through police checks, transport paid for by Thaksin Shinawatra, only to have their ID cards held by organisers so that they couldn’t leave. Machine shops manufacturing M79 grenade launchers, grenades launched at airport fuel bunkers, electrical towers standing precariously on two legs after bombings.
I’m not defending Abhisit, he can look after himself. What I am saying is that poor people were lured there by opportunists who should be held to the same standard.
ramrod711
The red-shirt protest started on March 14 and the Army started killing protesters on April 10. That is a grand total of 27 days, from the start of the protest to the start of the massacre.
How does that compare to Suthep Thaugsuban’s protest?
The yellow-shirt PDRC was formed and took to the streets on November 29 and remained on the streets until May 22 – a grand total of 173 days. And yet no massacre. Why, in one case, did the government order an armed response after 27 days, but in the other case, hold its fire for 173 days?
Pornprong
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