CNN's Report On Hospital Attack

Among the patients moved yesterday: a 28 year old mom with breast cancer and a baby with a breathing problem.

Red Shirts Storm Hospital

One of many sad pictures from Chulalongkorn, the nation's premiere teaching hospital. Many patients chose to be evacuated after Red Shirts stormed in with guns in search of government troops.

Link to NY Times article

ใครฆ่าประชาชน - แม้ว vs. มาร์ค (with subtitles)

Here's a real eye opener . . . a video of Thaksin's and Red Shirt Leader Jatuporn's ranting onstage with English subtitles! This seriously creeps me out. Yes, these same "peaceful patriots" who appeal to the UN for protection are simultaneously declaring their willingness to destroy airport, hospitals and even NGOs if crossed. In case you didn't get the irony, the filmmaker includes frequent cuts to the recent political mayhem.

The filmmaker (seemingly influenced by Michael Moore) splices in footage from past Thai political conflicts and the Holocaust, as well as scenes of violence from the most recent conflicts. Apparently I wasn't the only one who thought Jatuporn sounded exactly like Adolf Hitler.

The most haunting image for me was the 1973 Thai protest. Twenty-thousand protestors at Victory Monument . . . EXACTLY like photos from earlier this month!

Eerie Photos of Barricades Around Red City

Click here to watch a great slide show. Most of these are 1-2 kilometers from my house. As I was watching it, I was thinking, "I used to jog there!" and "I had my hash there!" Now some of those streets look like no-man's-land . .

Red Shirts Get Massages To Relieve The Tension

A Funny

Funniest thing heard all day: a colleague of mine is moving to a school in Saudi next semester. She was emailing with her new principal, who wrote, "Please be careful. We can't wait to get you and your family to the relative safety of our beautiful compound in Riyadh."

Apocalypse Now?

Yesterday (as I stated before) felt like the end times in Nonthaburi! Imagine a raging storm (which snapped mature trees and ripped off portions of the roof at work), while ten minutes away, the Red Shirts and government clashed near Don Muang. I was watching it unfold on Twitter with the thunder crashing in the background when suddenly the lights went out ...

Here's a video from Al Jazeera on YouTube ...