Here is a brief summary of some of the things that Nick discovered while prowling the streets of the Thai capital with his camera:
- On the police: "...neutral, but .... heart is red.”
- On former Thai PM Thaksin: "No more fluffy"
- On Red Shirt identity: "Not just upcountry people attended, but increasingly large numbers of middle class Bangkokians too."
- On the relative size of a Red Shirts' protest: "biggest mass protest I have seen during the last 3 and a half years of political turmoil in Thailand, dwarfing every single PAD protest march."
- On "Blue Shirts" in Pattaya: They were former PAD guards and Navy personnel.
- On the storming of the Pattaya hotel where ASEAN leaders were to assemble: "I was completely astounded, and let myself be carried with the flow of protesters who streamed into the hotel like an overflowing river."
- On the scene of the attack on the Prime Minister's vehicle: "I pushed a few too aggressive Red Shirts away, and shouted at them that they should not behave like animals. . . ."
- On the crackdown: "...Red Shirts were running towards me... They shouted that the Army was coming."
- On allegations of army killings: "Agitated Red Shirts told me of people having been killed, and dragged by soldiers into lorries. I have no way of verifying this. This was obviously not a situation where I could cross the lines and make polite inquiries."
- On attacks against the media: "Right now only foreign journalists can safely work with Red Shirts. This is a huge problem for the future.."
- On further allegations of killings: "....Red Shirt guards who told me harrowing tales of the battles, of how they have seen friends dragged away and beaten to death, and how they could not reach the corpses before they were snatched away."
- On whether the government has been telling the truth: "The government has to organise an official and neutral inquiry. And it has to stop lying that only fake bullets were used, and only fired into the air. . . . "
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