Red Shirts storm Thaicom

Thaicom is around 50 kilometres out of Bangkok in the Lat Lum Kaeo district of Pathum Thani and it's baking hot on the back of the motorcycle with little relief from the beating sun and as we end the journey bouncing down small country lanes between fields of crops, and the appearance of a large cluster of huge satellite dishes is a very welcome sight indeed. Thaicom is situated in a rectangular compound with a small lake at the front and a main entrance to one edge. That face gives way to a long side raised about 5 foot above a recently-harvested field, while further down there is a cluster of army vehicles lurking behind a ring of barbed wire. There are several rolls of barbed wire at the main gate and a roll down the side, but its only a minor fortification and the two or thre hundred army personnel are heavily outnumbered by the protestors who continue to roll up, lining the narrow country lanes and spilling out into the fields around the compound, maybe more than ten thousand trekking up from the city in all manner of vehicles. The tension was palpable as two of the Reds' command trucks lined up at the gates with the core leaders continuing to talk up the pressure from the PA systems. Today the atmosphere had changed, the Reds were ready for action and they were happy to show me big bolt cutters that they had ready to cut their way through the barbed wire. There were light moments, a protestor shouting at the army provoked laughter as he a model plane balanced on his ...



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