The Fog of War
13 April 2009
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This blog has remained silent on the latest “disturbances” — with every hour that passes, it looks increasingly likely we will refer to this as a “massacre” when it’s all said and done. Not that anyone would give a damn about what I think, really, but some thoughts are forthcoming. As regular readers would know, I sympathize with the cause of the red shirts — if not with their leadership or their methods. Given how sketchy the reporting currently is, I want to give this a chance to play out before I say anything I may want to take back later. Until the fog of war finally lifts.
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You’re one of the rare commentators that elucidates the situation rather than adding to the general confusion. I’m looking forward to your analysis, once the time is right — there is no point in doing it prematurely.
I wish I had your self control.
btw, I too sympathize with the democratic cause of the red shirts (not the whitewash of Thaksin cause!), but I also can sympathize with the original anti corruption, checks & balances cause of the yellows shirts.
Bloomberg’s Bernie Lo started his April 13th morning show from HK talking about the Thai PM having egg on his face. He then informed us that the Thai army would start cracking down on the red shirts by 5am Thai time (one hour after HK).
It was shortly after this that I started seeing on one or two Thai TV channels soldiers picking up what looked like bodies and piling them into the back of covered vans. It was Bernies guest (a chinese ?) who drove home the point that the bodies were being removed ASAP. The bodies did not look like injured people, more like dead people. There was also an english language commentary about how swiftly the bodies were being removed before dawn shed too much light. Sevral cameras captured this video that was broadcast live by multiple Thai stations just after 5 am April 13th. There is definitely incriminating footage out there, evidence that would go towards explaining the reaction taken by the red shirts later in the day.
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