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[Kirkland]

"A bomb, hidden in a black plastic bag, went off at a bus stop in front of Big C Ratchadamri on Sunday at about 5.45pm, reports said. Six men and two women, including a bus driver, were injured from the blast and they were sent to the Police General Hospital. One of them was seriously wounded.

Two cars were damaged from the explosion.Police at Lumpini station were investigating, and believed the explosive was a homemade bomb."

http://www.bangkokpost.com/breakingnews/18...es-8-in-bangkok

[B.I.G.]

Regardless of who placed this bomb, the government is certain to blame the red shirts as an excuse for continuation of the Emergency Decree, even though the decree will do nothing to stop it.

Let's all hope it's not an indication that terrorism has finally escaped from the South and becoming national. If that's the case, this kind of bombing at a supermarket could do even more damage to tourism than the red shirt protests because tourists will cancel when things like going shopping to the market become deadly risks. The security experts have all been warning Abhisit that his policies of repression under the cover of the State of Emergency could drive the red shirt movement underground and push it into more violence.

[Finian]

I would not be surprised if right wing monarchists or the army or PAD did the bombing to keep the State of Emergency in order to enable CRES to hold all the red shirt leaders in jail indefinitely. No matter what they say, Abhisit & Company are out to destroy Pheu Thai party and the red shirts.

[Oliver]

....and to screw the poor. As usual.

[mauRICE]

The security experts have all been warning Abhisit that his policies of repression under the cover of the State of Emergency could drive the red shirt movement underground and push it into more violence.

From what I've heard from taxi drivers, ancillary workers, service staff, etc who are largely Red Shirt supporters, this is what has been happening since they were violently made to disperse from Bangkok two months ago. The Red Shirt struggle is far, far from over. Do you notice that Thaksin's name is not being mentioned as often by the media now? IMO, this means that the Red Shirts are being seen as an independent movement and is a very good sign.

[Harold]

"Bomb blasts hope of lifting decree" That's the headline in this morning's Bangkok Post. The government denies it planted the bomb just so it could keep the red shirts in jail under the state of emergency. I don't believe that and I doubt that many Thais in or out of the government does either.

[Hedda]

You would think that the experience in the Thai south, where there are explosions almost daily - notwithstanding a virtually permanent State of Emergency which is now years old - would suggest that the only thing these declared and contrived emergencies do is take away people rights without preventing violence. Unfortunately, the Abhisit government and its army sponsors in the CRES see the state of emergency as the easiest way to practice political repression while preaching social reconciliation. All they need is have someone set off a banger in a public toilet and they can continue to hold hundreds of political prisoners behind bars without bail or charges. It amounts to a grand political farce which accommodating judges have been only too happy to permit.

Can you imagine what hoots there would be if that great dictator Thaksin has even tried this, let alone done it - for months now. What's curious to this writer is that the farangs who claimed Thaksin was properly removed by an illegal coup because he was a threat to democracy now seem content to sit silently and say nothing as civil liberties are slowly but surely dismantled by the same gang that catered the coup.
They don't seem to grasp that, although the coup was successful in surgically removing the elected prime minister from office, the patient,Thai democracy, died on the operating table.