Monday, May 17, 2010

Unrest In Thailand -- News Updates May 17, 2010



Renegade Thai General Dies as Chaos Continues -- New York Times

BANGKOK — Heavy fighting and explosions were reported in one area of Bangkok early on Monday in the deadliest and most prolonged conflict in Thailand in many years.

Some residents were trapped in their homes, and guests took refuge in the basement of the five-star Dusit Thani hotel. “We didn’t know where bombs and bullets were going to come from,” said a television reporter who was trapped inside the hotel.

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More News On The Unrest In Thailand

Rogue general dies, Thai crisis spreads as death toll reaches 64
-- Financial Times
Thai troops close in on protest encampment -- Yahoo News/Reuters
Protest leader calls Thai PM aide, seeks ceasefire -- Yahoo News/AP
Thousands of Thai protesters defy deadline to leave -- Yahoo News/AFP
The moment Thai Red Shirt protesters 'used a child as a human shield' as country teeters on brink of civil war -- The Daily Telegraph
Thai Protests Escalate in Bangkok "War Zone" -- Newsweek
Rogue Thai general dies as Redshirts given new deadline -- Times Online
Thailand protests: Red shirts defy deadline to disperse -- Christian Science Monitor
Bangkok ablaze in anarchy -- Washington Times
Q+A: What's going on in Thailand's chaotic capital? -- Reuters
Red Shirts fear 'our Tiananmen Square' -- Sydney Morning Herald

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