We Thais aren’t better than Khmers

and of hypocricy said…

Hi anonymous Thai Newspaper.

We Thais aren’t better than the Cambodians. We are more hypocrite than them and than the rest of the world.

Sirikit appeared with her new blue diamond at Bhumibol's fest

King Richard III was standing trial for being accused of killing his two nephews, but we Thais lost one King, who was shot in cold blood by allegedly his young brother, the current King, we dared not to even ask who did it, but we crawling and crowning him.

Not even that we are forced to worship him like god who does no wrong, he and his family are the world richest and created “Les Majesty Laws” upon us in this 21th century. I don’t know how long the poor people can take this.

If the King and his family are good people then why are they afraid of? Why “Les Majesty Laws” need to be used?

We are taught to look down on the Cambodians, the Laos, the Burmese but our crown prince is a playboy has Aid, and his wife billions around the world saw her naked at the pool party known as a porn star. Our Queen supports and funded PAD against Red shirts who also Thais, and our Queen was famously accused by Saudi for stealing its blue diamond (see the diamond here and the stealing of diamond story here). Many people were killed and disppeared. Humm.. I have no idea that the position of King and Queen are so powerful like that in our land of no-more smile.

I too give up my Thai citizenship from this hour. I am so ashamed for being a Thai. Posted In Here

Southeast Asia: Reactions to Thailand protests

Global Voice

By Mong Palatino

For two months, Red Shirt protesters occupied the streets of Bangkok demanding the resignation of the prime minister. The protest camps have been dismantled already but the city is still reeling from the political crisis.

The violent confrontations between the heavily armed soldiers and protesters in the past week have stunned the world. What are the reactions of bloggers from neighbouring Southeast Asian nations?

A few days ago, the Thailand government revealed that Cambodian “mercenaries” were hired by the Red Shirts to sow violence in the city. This accusation elicited strong reactions in Cambodia. Khmerizationreminds the Thailand government that there are many ethnic Khmers in Thailand who are already Thai citizens.

Many red shirt protesters were mainly made up of ethnic Khmers and Laotians living in the northeastern provinces of Thailand who are Thai citizens. We need to remember also that the Thai media owned by the Red Shirt Movement also accused the Abhisit government of dressing up Khmer prisoners in military uniform and sent them to crackdown on the red shirt recently. How true are these rumours? Nobody knows.

The Son of the Khmer Empire believes the motive for spreading this rumor is to demonize Cambodians

I believe the rumour is circulated intentionally and politically in order to…make the Khmer as scapegaot to appease Thai anger against each other and turn the revenge/hatred towards Khmers and esp. the bloody Thai elite and royal family will not be held responsible for the bloodshed.

A political cartoon about the Red Shirt protest crackdown in Bangkok. Cartoon created by Cambodian artist Bun Heang Ung

Filipino journalist Joe Torres visited a Red Shirt protest site

It was like our EDSA “revolutions.” There were raw emotions, spontaneous actions and a lot of fun. The people, many of them from the countryside, wanted the ruling party out. They wanted “change,” something we hear in our politicians campaign sorties these days.

Kopisusu2 from Indonesia was also visiting Bangkok when the Red Shirts were still in the streets

Many analysts agree the protesters have a point. But as long as the demonstration lasts, the Red Shirts are cutting off the supply of joy to businesses in the Red Zone and impeding its flow to the entire economy.

Our old hotel, the VIP Golden House, is inside the zone. It will stay closed until the protesters leave, said the woman behind the desk with a stoic smile.

i eat padek, who blogs about Laos, reacts

wow. red shirts, yellow shirts, thaksin vs. vejjajivait, it’s all really confusing… most people have already heard about the recent violence consuming bangkok, thailand and killing it’s land-of-smiles-and-etc tourism industry

Southeast Asian Archaeology newsblog warns that the protests are affecting attendance in museums near the protest zones

Most of you would be familiar with the protests going on in Bangkok, which have recently claimed lives due to clashes between the protesters and the authorities. The Fine Arts Department also report that museum visitorships have suffered greatly because of the protests, as the majority of the museums in Bangkok are located near the protest areas, and in some cases protesters have mistakenly stormed the museums!

Musings from the Lion City, a Singapore blogger, analyzes Thailand’s political situation

Even if he wants to call fresh elections, Abhisit most probably can’t as the Bangkok elite that support him and put him in power will not allow it. They will probably also know that any elections will be won by the rural “Red Shirts”. Mistakes have been made by both sides in this conflict and I’m afraid the mistakes has piled up to such an extent that there’s no longer an easy way out for anyone.

Twitter and Facebook were extensively used to monitor the situation in Bangkok. Jonathan Russell provides a better and clearer context about the usage of social media in relation to the Red Shirt protests

While I do agree Twitter, and more prominently Facebook, amplified hateful comments, many of the vitriol online (though worrying itself) can be put down to extreme opinions which do not represent the popular opinion.

A minority of Thais use Facebook (around 3 million) and Twitter (less than a million), and of these the comments came from a small percentage. For example, an vitriolic Facebook Group with 1,000 is large number but, in the bigger picture, is 0.03% of Thai Facebook members and clearly not representative of any kind of majority.

I agree that the manner in which social networks can legitimize vitriolic groups which grew in Thailand during the protests is worrying. As the average Facebook users is more likely in Bangkok, middle class or affluent, and not a red shirt, much of comments and rage were against the UDD and its protest. Here.

The Nation Mourns

By The Son Of the Khmer Empire

May 21,2010 at 9:22 pm

According to the content of Bangkok Post it means the nation mourn for the lost of burnt billion dollar buildings, but not the lost of human life (Partly collapsed Central World)

The Bangkok Post, the biased news of pro-Thai elite and royalist, published an article in the front page titled:The Nation Mourns, on 21 May 2010 which I tried to avoid reading it many times when I surfed the site but at last I decided to read it  and ridiculously found it contradicted to its unique title. Please read the whole article HERE.

“The Nation Mourns” doesn’t mean to mourn the lost of the civilian life during the crackdown ranges, but it seems to mourn the lost of elite’s property burnt down in the economic center of Bangkok and to put more blames on the poor RED. Why? Please observe in the followings:

1. The Bangkok Post of the elite clearly doesn’t specify what they are mourning about. It just states: “Level of chaos catches government off-guard / A nation mourns. Death toll climbs to 52 in 6 days of bloodshed / Arms stockpiles found at abandoned sites”. Here the word “mourn” just appears twice in the whole article: (1) the title and (2) the sub-title with no clue to what it is emphasized on and the rest of the article just goes to something else for its own cause as usual.
2. It published only pictures of the burnt buildings from the beginning to the end of the article, included some elements that the yellow and Abhisit govt are trying to use as evidence to justify their violence and accusation against the RED shirts as “violence”, “buffalo“, and  ”terrorists” with some pictures of military operation equipped with modern war weapons seemingly confronting an Al-Qaida or a war in Iraq. In this sense it seems that the Bangkok Post values property lost more than the lost of the civilian life in the 6 days bloodshed. And it’s even more ridiculous that Bangkok Post forgets to include dozens of civilian and soldiers killed in the bloodshed on 10 April 2010.

As the voice of human being in the civilized world, in this sense, Bangkok Post should stay out of politics, if not in its nature, but just this one in order to fit with its article’s title and honor the death whether they are RED, multi-color, yellow,  or soldiers because they are all just Thai and even the foreign journalists who died in the cause. To be reasonably correct, it should  focus on the content which express the feeling of “SORRY” or “CONDOLENCE ” as a nation to appease and console the family of the death and voice its concern towards govt to avoid such a lost in any future of political crisis.

For me I’d like to share my condolence to all the families of the death as a friend, a citizen of a neighboring country,  and the same human being, and more than that to the RED, even they were rioting in the last fight which led to torching down some buildings and looting something, I am still sympathy for them because as I have observed the red violence occurred only after military crackdown violently carried out against them, for instance, the event on 10 April 2010 which as we know happened only after militay moved in to retake the rally compound under its so-called emergency law and the event in this moth which surely happened only after threes causes threatened: (1) the govt cut off all supply road to protesters and moved in military, (2) most important factor Seh Daeng was assassinated, and (3) military moved in to crackdown on protesters’ site and more indiscriminate killing carried out by the military. And remarkably not all of the red involved in the violence.

Whereas, the accusation of the Bangkok elite and Abhisit govt that this blast that blast hit by M79 related to RED shirt, that black clad militant,  those snipers shot soldiers and civilians are groundless since they have never been able to produce any reliable evidences except one-sided accusation.

WISH THE RED WIN SOME DAYS FOR THEIR STRUGGLE!

Read more about mourning in Bangkok  slaughter by FACT  here.

Red-shirt leader Kokaew Pikulthong’s important words

The Nation

May 20,2010 at 7:03 pm

REd shirt woman at gun point

“My message to the red shirts is that our struggle is just and still ongoing, therefore we should not vent our anger by rioting,” he said, urging the reds to conserve their energy for the struggle in the longer term.

“For those in power, if your view is the reds are the hired hands of Thaksin Shinawatra, then you should reconsider in light of the prove that the reds stand for an ideological movement which can not be destroyed by framing or killing,” he said.

He concluded his remarks by calling on Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva to quickly dissolve Parliament and face the legal proceedings related to his role in the crackdown.

“If Abhisit keeps on ignoring the red shirts, society, his family included, will never be at peace because the reds will resume protesting with or without their leaders,” he said.

The Son OF the Khmer Empire say: Hun Xen should take these words into consideration as well if he is to lead Cambodia for a long term peace, harmony, solidarity, democracy, and social and economic justice.

RED SHIRT leader get shot!

By The Son Of the Khmer Empire

May 14,2010 at 8:32 pm

Seh Daeng (Rueters)

The up-date-news of the RED crack down by the double standard govt is reportedly posted at Political Prisoners in Thailand which interestingly Seh Daeng, the RED SHIRT’S security leader, was seriously shot and now he is being treated at Huachiev Hospital. Please read the collective news here.

They (Siamese elite) call them (RED SHIRT) a terrorist group!

Written by The Son Of the Khmer Empire

May 10, 2010 at 4:27pm

In this picture is the alleged terrorist network the elite and Democrats in Bangkok accused of.

NOTE:  The elite in Bangkok call this network  – the RED NETWORK, as a terrorist group aiming at destroying Thailand.

To my point of view such a negative painting colour to the RED network is unacceptable and will affect Thailand future’s reconciliation since the RED have been deprived of their freedom to democracy, due process before the law, health care, and economic justice, and ignored their dignity. My question is that how can one work without a network? How can this group become  so popular among the majority of Thai people if it is a terrorist group and its oversea branches are not banned by the international communities?  And why don’t  interpol arrest Thaksin if he supports a terrorist group?

The problem today in Thailand is deeply rooted in Thai society created by hierarchical system and monarchism, and the Bangkok elite can’t  solve this issue by accusing its opponent -the RED, of being a terrorist to gain national and international support to justify its handling the country with injustice, violence, and double standard system.  For instance, the crack down on the RED is always carried out with more harsh and violent in both military and legal actions compared to the crack down on the Yellow.

Actually, I am for Thaksin even I am against his friend – Hun Xen of Cambodia, for he did help the North and North Eastern people, not because most of them are descendants of Khmer Empire and Laos, but because he helped improve their living standards and dignity.

Lesson learned: The elite in Bangkok always treat their poor compatriots just like they treat their poorer neighbors – Cambodia, Laos, and Myanmar.

Missing weapons on 10 April 2010 bloody clash

Bangkok Post:

Written by The Son Of the Khmer Empire

April 19, 2010 at 4:38pm

Red woman defies Abhisit govt

Among the firearms and other equipment claimed to have been lost during the clash were nine M16 rifles, 25 Tavor rifles, six anti-aircraft guns, 116 shields, 105 batons and 80 body armour suits.

The army also lost control of six personnel carriers and three high-mobility multi-purpose vehicles when troops abandoned them in the face of angry red shirts.

Ammunition also went missing, including 580 rubber bullet rounds, 600 anti-aircraft rounds and 8,182 M16 rifle rounds.

Note:  Why such a shameful information publicized by the Thai govt after the clash?

• Thai govt under Abhishit  is absolutely so irresponsible as Cambodian govt under Hun Xen for its violence.
• Thai govt tries to seek political support / reason/ justification to crackdown on the reds for the next move.
• It would be a win-win strategy for Thai govt if reds did hand out the weapons seized.

However, we may wonder  why did these soldiers need to bring anti-aircraft, so much live amour, and other weapons to the demonstration sites since they claimed that soldiers would not use live round except for rubber bullets? Or they need that much anti-air craft and live round to shoot into the sky? And we should also ask thai govt why there are more dead and injured civilians than the soldiers if soldiers didn’t shoot at the reds?

I raise this in order to remind all democratic Cambodians  that pls do not trust the Thai politicians, esp. those who (the elites) aligns themselves with the royal institution, since they are not even HONEST to their own people and they always look down on the poor and of course, now our country is poorer than that of Thailand which can be viewed/treated as those poor in Thailand by them.