Amazing Video: Thai government terrorist captured on tape throwing grenade.

[grantcart]

Five days ago I made this prediction here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014695976#post4

The most likely outcome is that the Thaksin regime will use 'black shirt' hired guns, which they have done before, to start shooting into the protesters to create chaos.

Thaksin/Yingluck cabal faces a dilemma. Public support for the regime has collapsed and the entire country wants a caretaker to run the government until vote buying reforms can be successfully instituted, for obvious reasons. They have to create chaos among the demonstrators and this is traditionally done by use of snipers. The problem is that if there are sufficient fatalities then the military will come in to secure public order and they will be gone for ever.

Now this amazing video captures the attacker throwing the grenade. The likelihood that the attacker will be caught is very good. In the Thai tradition when someone is caught in a crime like this they almost always volunteer a frank confession (and get leniency). The possibility that we will find out who ordered the attack is good if they don't disappear the fellow before he turns himself in.

It bodes well for the demonstrators because the government is going to be doubly cautious in launching anymore attacks. This criminal regime is on its last legs.

They have launched two attacks on demonstrators:

http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/local/390361/update-blast-wounds-28-ralliers-at-victory-monument

Twenty eight people were injured in a bomb explosion at the Victory Monument anti-government protest rally site at about 1.34pm, media reports said.

One of the 28 wounded is Sithinee Huangnak, a reporter for Post Today newspaper, who was admitted to nearby Ratchawithi Hospital. Ms Sithinee was later transferred to Phyathai Hospital 2 hospital.

Twelve others wounded were taken to Ratchawithi, nine to Ramathibodi, four to King Chulalongkorn and two to Phra Mongkut hospitals, according to the Erawan Centre.

Thaworn Senneam, a former Democrat MP and core PDRC co-leader in charge at the Victory Monument rally stage, said an unidentified man threw an explosive device near a press centre tent behind the rally stage and ran off. He was chased by security guards and protesters, prompting him to toss another bomb.

A daylight attack and grenade explosion that injured 36 protesters marching on Banthat Thong Road on Friday underscored fears of rising violence as the People's Democratic Reform Committee (PDRC)

The attack occurred at 1.04pm, the explosion hitting the protest about 200 metres from where PDRC leader Suthep Thaugsuban was leading the march from the Lumpini Park stage to Silom, Si Phraya and Banthat...

http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/local/390108/daylight-bomb-on-banthat-thong-heightens-alarm.

mrs grantcart was at a second venue about 4 kilos from the second attack at the time this grenade was thrown.

[Jesus Malverde]

1. What makes this guy a stooge of the government?

I missed that part.

[OregonBlue]

2. Because the protestors are protesting the government. The government is hoping the bombings will

discourage demonstrations.

[grantcart]

3. Extra Judicial Killings is SOP for the Shinawatra Clan.

http://www.humanrights.asia/resources/journals-magazines/article2/0203/extrajudicial-killings-of-alleged-drug-dealers-in-thailand

Prime Minister of Thailand Thaksin Shinawatra announced on 28 January 2003 that a 'war on drugs' would begin on February 1, and continue until April 30, at which time the country would be drug-free. As a result, over 2000 persons lost their lives during this three-month period, murdered on the streets, in houses, restaurants and shops around the country.

So cavalier was Thaksin about murdering protesters that he had it these young men killed after apprehending them in public.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tak_Bai_Incident

Almost 1,300 protesters were detained at the scene;[3] they were ordered to strip, lie on their bellies, and crawl to nearby trucks that would transport them to another site.[5] Footage taken by journalists confirmed allegations against the military that many protesters were kicked and beaten with sticks even after complying with orders to lie on the ground.[3][6]

The detainees were then stacked atop one another in trucks and transported to Inkayut Military Camp in Pattani Province. The drive took five hours, and by the time the trucks arrived at the destination, 78 detainees had died from suffocation or organ collapse.[3][5]

In the demonstrations of 2010 the Shinawatra cabal used extensive use of paramilitary assassins to fire onto demonstrators and police as documented by Human Rights Watch

http://www.hrw.org/node/98399/section/5

However, Human Rights Watch’s investigations found that the attacks did not originate with Red Shirt Guards, but with a secretive armed element within the UDD whom protesters and media called the “Black Shirts” or “Men in Black”—though not all were dressed in black.[54]

Members of these armed groups were captured on photographs and film armed with various military weapons, including AK-47 and M16 assault rifles, as well as M79 grenade launchers, during their clashes with government security forces.[55]

And then there is this. 24 hours before the first attack, hard core militant supporters announced their intentions to use violence to media sources that they were prepared to counter the peaceful demonstrators with violence.

According to the Bangkok Post, radical members of the Red Shirts — diehard champions of Yingluck and her notorious brother Thaksin Shinawatra — are readying a cache of arms in case the 46-year-old premier is forced from office by either military or judicial intervention.

The paper quoted a Red Shirt source as saying “There are strong anti-coup and anti-court sentiments among the red-shirt mavericks who are familiar and experienced with weapon use.”


Read more: Bangkok Shutdown: Yingluck Supporters Prepare to Fight for Democracy | TIME.com http://world.time.com/2014/01/16/bangkok-shutdown-yingluck-supporters-prepare-to-fight-for-democracy/#ixzz2qxrG7s7v

The demonstrators continue without any violence and today's poll shows that 1 in 5 Bangkok residents have participated in one of the 7 locations in the capital. The demonstrators are not demonstrating for any particular party or leader, simply for the removal of the criminal Shinawatra clan.