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[Hedda]

German photographer Nick Nostitz has been working in Bangkok for years and is fluent in Thai . He was one of the photo journalists who got to question PM Opposite last week when the PM met with the foreign press. Nostitz pressed the PM about alleged trigger-happy troops shooting of unarmed protesters that Nostitz said he personally witnessed and photographed.

According to New Mandala website, portions of Nostitz's internet photo-essays on the crackdown have now been blocked from access inside Thailand. New Mandala writes: Surely, just a coincidence.

http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/newmandala/

[TheYenta]

The New Mandala has now republished German journalist Nick Nostitz's hair-raising account of some of the violence in Bangkok and the army's seemingly indiscriminate use of live ammunition against protesters who posed no threat to them. The account begins:

"Sitting here at home, I wonder if this day, the 15th of May, has been real, or just a terrible nightmare. Never in my whole life have I been so scared. I thought that I am going to die today."

The eyewitness account on Nostitz's blog is now being blocked in Thailand, but you can read it at the following link:

http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/newmandala/2...post/#more-9765

[gay_grampa]

"Sitting here at home, I wonder if this day, the 15th of May, has been real, or just a terrible nightmare. Never in my whole life have I been so scared. I thought that I am going to die today."

It reminded him of the bedtime stories his father told about the seige of Stalingrad

[Dick]

It reminded him of the bedtime stories his father told about the seige of Stalingrad

I assume that's a knock at this guy's German nationality. Is there anyone other than your hero Abhisit for whom you don't have an axe to grind ?