Thai Forces Enter Protest Zone in Bangkok

[The Damned]

Source: MSNBC.com

BANGKOK - Four armored personnel carriers entered an anti-government encampment in central Bangkok, Wednesday, punching a hole in the tire-and-bamboo barricades and driving in with troops behind them.

About 100 troops took up positions along the wall of central Lumpini Park and trained their guns inside. The armored personnel carriers provided the troops cover. But there were no protesters in sight, and the troops did not fire. The troops moved past smoldering fires, apparently set by retreating protesters.

The assault marked the first significant push into the protest zone in the crackdown that began before Wednesday.

An Associated Press photographer reported seeing three foreign journalists shot during the army operation, and one of them appeared dead.



Read more: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37201360/ns/world_news-asiapacific/

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Well, now that journalists (i.e., Important People) are being harmed, I guess the story is more important than it was previously.