Posts Tagged with "Bangkok"

Bangkok Bodysnatchers

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

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Bangkok Bodysnatchers

Esquire (UK) September 2010 They've been accused of robbing the dead, ransoming corpses back to loved ones, and practising witchcraft and cannibalism. But what would Bangkok do without its volunteer ambulance crews?

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Voices from the Aftermath

Thursday, May 20, 2010

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Today, I walked through the near-deserted Rajaprasong protest site in a state of disbelief. I went to interview the last remaining Red Shirts—many of them women, children and elderly—who had sought refuge in Pathumwanaram temple as troops stormed this area of central Bangkok on Wednesday. With dozens of their comrades dead, and their leaders either [...]

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Thais Love Peace

Friday, April 23, 2010

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One person was killed and scores injured in the latest violence in Bangkok last night. The M-79 grenades which caused the carnage were, said the government, fired from the direction of Lumphini Park, where thousands of red-shirt protesters remain encamped. The reds deny firing them. The fact remains: someone lobbed high explosives into rush-hour crowds, [...]

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Body Counts

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

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Two more people, a soldier and a civilian, have died of injuries from Saturday’s clashes in Bangkok between the army and red-shirt protesters, bringing the death toll to 23. Anyone living here is also aware that Thailand is currently racking up a second and far higher body count. Road accidents killed 114 people and injured [...]

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The Battle Of Ed’s Head

Monday, April 5, 2010

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I’ve been thinking about Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried, and not just because it’s a journalistic must-read with some of my all-time favorite lines. (Many still resonate today: “If at the end of a war story you feel uplifted, or if you feel that some small bit of rectitude has been salvaged from the larger [...]

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