Safety in Udon Thani

[Bandung_Dero]

IMO these senior Police and Governors should be charged with criminal negligence. Not just relocated to some cushy job elsewhere, on full pay i would guess!

[DannyAsia]

I went to Yi Soon yesterday, the "chinese supermarket". The 1:st Yi Soon, inside the town, close to the "red zone".
Anyways, I saw probably 15-25 shops closed along this road. Some had signs put up in thai. Does anyone know why they were closed? Does it have to do with the red shirts or some chinese celebrations or something?

[UdonExpat]

Today is the full moon and it is a very important Buddhist Holiday, Visakha Bucha Day.

That is probably why many shops have closed.

[UdonExpat]

So, now the provincial governor and the police chief have been removed and probably replaced with 'government' supporters.

Perhaps the local military commander will be next.

It seems the Bangkok government is upset that local officials didn't protect property and control the rioting up here.

[trubrit]

It seems the Bangkok government is upset that local officials didn't protect property and control the rioting up here.

Whilst they themselves obviously couldn't in Bangkok? :-" :-"

[nkstan]

It seems the Bangkok government is upset that local officials didn't protect property and control the rioting up here.

Whilst they themselves obviously couldn't in Bangkok? :-" :-"

Very true indeed!

If there was an attempt to prosecute all the criminally negligent in this country,civil war would be inevitable!

[rufus]

Redshirts are counting on quick election to restore the Billion dollars back to Thaksin. But then there will be more division

I feer that you Udonuk, like the massive majority of Redshirts in the street, are starting to believe what they want you to believe. Thaksin and all the puppets that appeared on stage in the guise of "leaders" of the reds, are, and will be quickly "replaced" as soon as the "Real Reds" have their hands on the power. Those faceless descision makers, who have plotted how to destableise the government and country, are just sitting in the wings waiting to take over. So far every move made by the "Redshirts" has come straight from the book of Maoist Revolutionary Theory. The five tactics they teach for unseating a government included: divide your enemies; form a united front; use provocative violence; secure the loyalty of people inside the ruling regime; and, finally, win over the army.
The government people have been quarrelling about what to do. Some senior figures have a divided loyalty. The army and the police cannot move and provocative violence has been very successful.


And before anyone says it, I didn't think the above up, it is loosly based on articles that have appeared in Asia Times.

You are a very funny man. Tell me, do you write comedy shows for television?

[bumper]

I was thinking about it this morning. Intelligence information couldn't have been lacking heck all they had to do was tune in the Red Shirt radio station. So where was the motivation not to protect the community property. My guess they are waiting for the next election and then be returned to their posts.

[trubrit]

Its just been announced that the curfew has been lifted everywhere in Thailand .As from now.

[wazza]

But the State of Emergency still applies

[UdonExpat]

It's good to see that the government is going to pursue charges against people for the rioting a few months back.

26 red shirts to face arson trial in Udon Thani

Provincial prosecutors on Wednesday completed their review on cases involving red shirts in Udon Thani, deciding to target a first batch of 26 for trial.

The Udon Thani Provincial Court has scheduled Thursday for notifying charges to the defendants.

The defendants will be tried on two separate cases, prosecutor Sirichai Suthiwirakachorn said

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/home/26 ... 35696.html

[jai yen yen]

Wow, isn't that great. The red shirts are going to be brought to justice. Too bad they weren't wearing yellow shirts then they could destroy the government buildings, shut down the international airport, severely damage the tourism industry and then get jobs with the newly appointed government. Note I said newly appointed government, not elected.

[jackspratt]

Perfectly correct jyy - the present government was appointed by the parliament, which of course consists of elected members.

As was the previous government.

[trubrit]

Well as a sympathiser of the red shirts grievances . Note I said sympathiser , not supporter .I must agree with Jai Yen Yen but they lost mine and I am sure , many others, sympathy, when they resorted to mindless vandalism.The burning of public buildings did nothing to further their cause, in fact they harmed themselves by destroying a facility that they , through their taxes , had paid for and will now have to pay for again, diverting funds from many other important projects that would have benefited the community. I noticed it was announced yesterday that 54 billion baht seized from Thaksin was available now for government use .Wouldn't it be poetic justice if this money was used to rebuild the damaged buildings . ;I
I do agree however that reconciliation is impossible while there is this, so obvious discrepancy in how the opposing camps are treated. In fact I thought Abhisit had totally lost his marbles last week when he not only permitted a large yellow shirt gathering, in contravention of his emergency order, but actually attended himself .This sort of behaviour can only make the division between the sides greater, certainly not help to bring them together .

[Khun Paul]

I see that to pre-empt possible problems, prior to and when the trials are under way, they are erecting temporary barriers along the streets near to the Court Buildings.Or these barriers are being put in to stop people parking as the streets around the Govt and Municipal Buildings are narrow in any event.
The reasons are as far as I can guess is to dissuade protesters from parking and by dispersing the concentration, it should be easier to police, personally I would have thought the opposite would achieve higher control, but then I'm not Thai.

[bumper]

Could be for the races this weekend

[JR]

Could be for the races this weekend

What races and what time and where?

[bumper]

Today and Tomorrow Nam Prajak, it the Toyota road race. I don't know the times. It's a road course and covers a lot of area. I think it's based on time so not a lot of fender bending.