Thread: Anti Coup : BTS cancels services at Ploenchit, Chidlom stations

Originally Posted by The Ghost Of The Moog

Any chance that topics like this could be confined to Mid's news updates, and the flowery speeches, rah-rah statements and half time punditry go to another thread?

Seconded

Well I for one as an expat hope that the coup's main initial purpose was to clear out corruption from all guilty of any colour or persuasion.
Hopefully the forensic accountants grilling Prayuth's guests are up to the task - they've got seven days to uncover some part of the money trails.

Originally Posted by Evilbaz

Well I for one as an expat hope that the coup's main initial purpose was to clear out corruption from all guilty of any colour or persuasion.

Everyone would be pleased to see that.

All the previous coups have done the opposite, just stolen the power and money...

Originally Posted by Bettyboo

Originally Posted by Evilbaz

Well I for one as an expat hope that the coup's main initial purpose was to clear out corruption from all guilty of any colour or persuasion.

Everyone would be pleased to see that.

All the previous coups have done the opposite, just stolen the power and money...

Ye without hope don't enter here ...

^ Just skeptical because it's all about money and power with the Thai army, they have never shown any interest in abiding by the laws of the land, they exist outside them.

I would be delighted to be wrong.

tulsathit @tulsathit · 1m RT

@nattster: @js100radio BTS Victory Monument closed temporarily. pic.twitter.com/FtJn52dShe



MCOT English News @MCOT_Eng · 1m

Ousted PM Thaksin asks NCPO via Twitter to return happiness to Thais, treat all fairly under Rule of Law, maintain Thailand's intl standing


Richard Barrow @RichardBarrow · 49s

4:45pm Soldiers lining up against Anti-#ThaiCoup protesters at Victory Monument (Pic @Biz_TheNation) pic.twitter.com/xV5bBwKw37 #Bangkok


https://twitter.com/2Bangkok

Originally Posted by Mid

tulsathit @tulsathit · 1m RT

@nattster: @js100radio BTS Victory Monument closed temporarily. pic.twitter.com/FtJn52dShe



MCOT English News @MCOT_Eng · 1m

Ousted PM Thaksin asks NCPO via Twitter to return happiness to Thais, treat all fairly under Rule of Law, maintain Thailand's intl standing


Richard Barrow @RichardBarrow · 49s

4:45pm Soldiers lining up against Anti-#ThaiCoup protesters at Victory Monument (Pic @Biz_TheNation) pic.twitter.com/xV5bBwKw37 #Bangkok


https://twitter.com/2Bangkok

Thanks and appreciation to Mid for his efforts in posting news as it emerges.
Very much appreciate the information and hope you can keep it up.
Thanks.

My guess is we can expect increasing censorship as opposition grows and I suspect we are in for possibly years of military government.
This could be a long term coupe.

No-one at Ploenchit right now. Everything as normal.

Troops block protesters from heading to Pathumvan Intersection
May 25, 2014 6:05 pm

Troops Sunday blocked anti-coup protesters from heading to the Phathumwan Intersection.

The protesters gathered at the Victory Monument at 3:30 pm.

They tried to move from the Victory Monument heading to Pathumwan Intersection at 5 pm.

They planned to rally in front of the Bangkok Arts and Culture Museum but troops managed to block them.

nationmultimedia.com

Originally Posted by Jonathan Head, BBC News, Bangkok

This is not like the last coup. There is more anger, more tension. The protests have been small so far - just a few hundred people. But they could grow. And the military is jittery. The potential for more dangerous confrontations is real.

BBC News - Thailand coup: Protests continue despite army warning

I haven't seen many of Jonathan's stories who is usually pretty spot on - while Jonah or Joshua or whoever seems a bit out of his depth.. a bad time to be entering the learning curve.

I admire the resolve of these protesters. The consequences for them if arrested will be pretty dire. The only hope is that with the rest of the country looking on and the international community already expressing disapproval the junta will find it awkward to just ' make them disappear ' .... never to return, as has often happened in the past.

This being the case, the protesters could easily increase their numbers and bring out the thousands of ordinary Thais who up until now have not joined either faction. A lot of people take their vote very seriously.

Photos: Anti-Coup Protest at Victory Monument
25 May 2014

BANGKOK — Several thousand Thais rallied around Bangkok’s Victory Monument yesterday in the growing protest movement against the military coup d’etat staged last Thursday.

There was a noticeably light presence of military and police personnel, who were greatly outnumbered by demonstrators. The rally was one of several staged throughout the country on Sunday and was largely peaceful, save for a brief confrontation between soldiers and protesters underneath the Victory Monument BTS station that ended with both sides retreating.

Here are Khaosod English’s photos from the scene:












en.khaosod.co.th