http://www.simonroughneen.com/asia/seasia/thailand/bloody-minded-in-bangkok-crikey/ Fri, 27 Jan 2012 11:40:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.simonroughneen.com/asia/seasia/thailand/bloody-minded-in-bangkok-crikey/comment-page-1/#comment-798 Fallen Angels in Bangkok - ISN | simonroughneen.com Fri, 16 Apr 2010 04:40:47 +0000 http://www.simonroughneen.com/?p=2353#comment-798 [...] ‘Blood will have blood‘, he said, implying that once blood is spilled, more will follow. And so three weeks after the anti-government red shirts poured their blood on the gates of the Thai Prime Minister’s Abhisit Vejajjiva’s residence and the country’s Government House, the gruesome symbolism was transfigured into tragic reality last weekend, with 19 civilians and 5 soldiers killed in the ‘The Battle of Bangkok’. Over 800 people were injured, as tourists looked on, and there are calls for the Government to establish an inquiry into what happened in Bangkok – or to give it its less well- known abbreviated name – Krung Thep or ‘City of Angels’. [...] [...] ‘Blood will have blood‘, he said, implying that once blood is spilled, more will follow. And so three weeks after the anti-government red shirts poured their blood on the gates of the Thai Prime Minister’s Abhisit Vejajjiva’s residence and the country’s Government House, the gruesome symbolism was transfigured into tragic reality last weekend, with 19 civilians and 5 soldiers killed in the ‘The Battle of Bangkok’. Over 800 people were injured, as tourists looked on, and there are calls for the Government to establish an inquiry into what happened in Bangkok – or to give it its less well- known abbreviated name – Krung Thep or ‘City of Angels’. [...]

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