Police stage-managed protest violence
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At the Royal Plaza last Saturday, much of the criticism has come from journalists and others who were not even there. The only violence occurred at a roadblock with police behind barricades using a loudspeaker to intimidate the crowd adjacent to where jou
The police did their best to cause unrest in front of the press. The main peaceful gathering of people was not of interest to the press. The situation was contrived to justify to the world the government’s unnecessary, aggressive over-policing. The people were shepherded through one small access with all other roads blocked off. I witnessed it.
The police, red shirts and the government are all seen as one corrupt political unit controlled by the man in Dubai, and this is the real concern of those at the Royal Plaza. And all this in a country claiming to be a democracy.
J C Wilcox
Bangkok
