Live-blogged accounts by Thais describe the fighting in Bangkok
THERELIVE.COM has surveyed the work of those who live-blogged the red shirt protests in Pattaya and Bangkok and the subsequent army crackdown. Recently, two firsthand Thai bloggers' accounts have come to our attention.
Thai live-blogger Kaa Tip's account was recently brought to the attention of an English-speaking readership by Sidh S (in a comment posted at New Mandala). Sidh S introduced the piece:
... the proliferation of the internet and phone cameras/vdo have made anyone capable of some form of photojournalism. Here is well-written one (sorry, it is in Thai) from a Nang-Lerng local that I got forwarded today.The original version of the account, in Thai, had been posted at Kaa Tip's blog at OK Nation (another version that you might find easier to read is posted here).
The entire post is about 2,000 words long, and includes a dozen photos. JOTMAN.COM has translated the first paragraph:
คนนางเลิ้งปะทะคนเสื้อแดง13 April 2552 [2009]
Posted by KaaTip
After breakfast. Announced during the outage. Went to bulky pot market to find something to eat. Storekeepers complained about having had their gas stolen. Thieves hit every store out. The news indicated that red shirt had taken the gas tanks to set fire to the streets. As I was walking to the market I saw a bus with a tire underneath it. There was yellow liquid nearby, not water, but strange yellow liquid. [...]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3r4egcJgEOc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DS3CkvNyl9M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wtMa4zZ-_o
Account of "Tamanxzg in ECT"
Many people have already seen the famous "overhead" video showing a street battle between the red shirts and the army. DanielCU #153, commenting at New Mandala, points to a post at CNN's i-report that includes an English summary of a report that appears to have accompanied the "aerial video." Some excellent aerial photographs of skirmishes are also available.
Links to the reports described above, and many other live-blogged reports of the unrest in Bangkok can be found here.
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