Thread: Suthin Taratin shot and killed at demo

Reports coming in that Suthin Taratin was shot in the head at one of the demonstrations to close polling booths.


Thai anti-govt protest leader shot dead | Asia News | South East Asia News | AsiaOne


Seems things might heat up a bit more, as this seems to be a result of a direct red/anti-gov protest groups clash

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Right. Okay, well next Sunday should prove interesting.

Originally Posted by Tom Sawyer

Right. Okay, well next Sunday should prove interesting.

We shall see, but I think for the first time the gov seriously mis-stepped. They should have ensured come hell or high water that the early voting stations were open. As it is, the last figure I saw said nearly 1/3 of the stations nationwide were closed. Think they will face serious court challenges about 2nd Feb, and we know how the courts tend to go......

problem belongs to the EC not the Gov .

yep only polling stations closed where in Bkk and the South .

i would put this down as an assassination, by either the reds, or goons acting on the orders of red sympathetic third hands with no provable links to the reds.

the fact that, during a state of emergency, enforced primarily to secure voting locations and rights, a group of armed men could get so close to a site where a high ranking yellow activist was demonstrating, start a distracting fracas and shoot their target in the head tells you a lot about chalerms and his governments abilities to do his job.

its not beyond the bounds of reason, given the state of things in thailand and the ease with which people can be persuaded to look the other way, that security at this site was purposely lax and this killing was precision planned.

suthin was an important member of the movement, a big cheese down south and his murder could well start off a frightening chain of events.

Originally Posted by Tom Sawyer

Originally Posted by nidhogg

Originally Posted by Tom Sawyer

Right. Okay, well next Sunday should prove interesting.

the last figure I saw said nearly 1/3 of the stations nationwide were closed.......

Link? All the reports so far say 89% went ahead - virtually all trouble free. Just the Dem controlled provinces in the south and Bangkok - where the EC seemed a bit too quick to close the polling stations because a dozen grannies and a few fat chinks showed up for a sit-down

my bad constituencies, not stations. Logic still applies.


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you really would love to see blood wouldnt you.

on another protest thread you were giving lessons in urban guerrilla warfare using grenades and firebombs to destroy the property of the rich. wouldnt surprise me if youve got a list of them pinned up in your war room, along with hamas manuals and nude photos of your favourite champagne socialists.

All I know is this. Initially, I thought the Thai family was down B300,000. Bit more than that. Actually, we are owed close to another B400,000 that was due many months ago.

My Thai family is about laid back as they get. They have enough reserves to get by. However, they are reaching their boiling points.

I have no idea what the future holds...

About one-in-five - from the Yellow-bellied EC themselves.
440,000 cannot vote in advance | Bangkok Post: news

Originally Posted by SteveCM

Originally Posted by StrontiumDog

Bangkok Post : PM, Froc face more flood complaints

PM, Froc face more flood complaints

• Published: 25/11/2011 at 02:47 PM
• Online news:

The Greenpeace has filed a petition with the National Anti-Corruption Commission, asking it to take legal action against the prime minister and head of the Flood Operations Command (Froc) for failing to resolve flood crisis, reports said.

The complaint, submit by representative of Greenpeace Suthin Tharathin, accused Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra and Froc head Pol Gen Pracha Promnok of negligence and malfeasance in handling the wide spread flooding, causing severe damage to people, farmlands and manufacturers, the reports said.

An NACC commissioner said the NACC had accepted the petition for further action.

Earlier today, a political activist Suriyasai Katasila had asked NACC to investigate the government for alleged mismanagement of the flood crisis causing hardship, property damage and hundreds of deaths.

Bangkok Post : Clarification: Greenpeace not involved

• Published: 25/11/2011 at 08:07 PM
• Online news:

An incorrect report in Breaking News on Friday indicated that the Greenpeace group had filed a complaint with anti-corruption authorities over mismanagement.

This report was incorrect and the story has been withdrawn from the website. The Greenpeace group has not been involved in the flood management crisis.

We regret this error in our fast-breaking news section.

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So, if (and only IF) Suthin was an "endorsed" hi-so leader of the Yellows, what will be the reaction? As we know in almost all civil conflicts (and outright wars), when the high-and-mighty get one of their own whacked, they usually retaliate by killing 10 or even 100 of the other side to "teach them a lesson". I guess it depends on how Hi-So this guy was..

Col Romklao's death was widely seen as the catalyst for the subsequent sniper attack on Se Daeng

witnesses said that suthin was on the back of the speaker truck.

Suthep asks top brass to shield protesters
26/01/2014

Anti-government protest leader Suthep Thaugsuban on Sunday night appealed to military leaders to provide safety for demonstrators after a protester was killed by gunshots at a polling booth in eastern Bangkok.


A protester pays respects to a picture of Suthin Tharathin at the Pathumwan stage. Suthin was killed on Sunday.
(Photo by Patipat Janthong)

‘’I appeal to all three armed forces leaders to come out and protect innocent people who fight (against caretaker Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra) with their hands,’’ the People’s Democratic Reform Committee (PDRC) leader told the crowd at the Pathumwan stage.

“We don’t want them to seize power or stage a coup. We only need their security protection as we have lost trust in the police,’’ he added.

The crowd then started chanting ‘’Military come out, military come out’’ as Mr Suthep made a call after Suthin Tharathin, a leader of the People’s Democratic Force to Overthrow Thaksinism, and 10 others were shot by gunshots emanating from a group of red shirts. Suthin was later pronounced dead at a hospital.

He was the fourth protester to die after the PDRC began its campaign to uproot the Thaksin regime, oust Ms Yingluck and embark on reform before a new election is held.

Suthin and the others were shot as they were leaving a polling station at Wat Sri Iam in the Bang Na area after having forced it to close.

The protest leader urged protesters to continue their peaceful rallies without arms instead of resorting to violence, as tension was escalating after the fatal incident.

“We have to adhere to this principle,’’ he said and urged either Ms Yingluck or police to take full responsibility for the shooting.

bangkokpost.com

It's not a peaceful protest if they are forcibly closing polling stations.

Originally Posted by larvidchr

Un fvucking believable

Sorry can't green you. Absolutely bizarre.

what exactly was the point of the state of emergency, if not to prevent acts of violence and secure the voting rights of those who wanted to vote.

how come there were no police or military around at those sites, and if there were, why did they allow gangs of red protesters to come into contact with yellow protesters.


bizarre doesn't even come close to describing events in this upside down land.

Originally Posted by taxexile

gangs of red protesters to come into contact with yellow protesters.

gangs v's protesters .



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For "protester" read "vandal" for that is all this lot are.

Rent-a-mob, rebels without a cause. Give them something to fight for and they will fight. Anyone would think there were Irish.

Rent-a-mob, rebels without a cause. Give them something to fight for and they will fight. Anyone would think there were Irish.

the report in the thai newspaper stated that a group of reds armed with sticks moved to confront a group of yellows moving away from the polling station.

call them all what you will, gangs, protesters. it doesnt really matter. rent a mob probably describes them best.

there was a police presence there, there is a state of emergency in effect, as it was a voting station it was not unreasonable to assume that trouble could flare up if opposing groups were not kept apart by the authorities.

this whole mess should have been shutdown by the authorities/military/police weeks ago, but the government just run around like rabbits in car headlights not knowing what to do, delivering platitudes towards non violence whilst slowly but surely, ill intentioned sideliners, of both factions, ratchet up the ante, bit by bit, until eventually there will only be one way to conclude it.

its like watching the floodwaters two years ago slowly and inexorably making there way down to bangkok when the authorities, after mismanaging water control at the dams were just left scratching their empty heads saying "thats another stupid mess you got me into"

laurel and hardy have got nothing on the lemming like ignorance and stupidity of the the thai governing class.