Troops Advance on Red Center in Day of Violence, Bangkok, May 19, 2010 Part 2

Leaders of the anti-government protests that have paralysed the heart of Bangkok for weeks have surrendered, after troops stormed their barricades.

At least five people have been killed in the gun battles in the Thai capital, and the demonstration leaders said they did not want anyone else to die.

But some of the so-called red-shirt protesters vowed to fight on.

Fires were started across the city, including at the stock exchange, banks, a huge shopping mall and a TV station.

The Thai government imposed a night-time curfew and ordered television channels to broadcast only official-sanctioned programmes.

Videographer's Note: These are currently being annotated - so come back again to see more information on screen. If you would like to help with translation from Thai to English, are genuinely fluent, you can do so by providing me with the start and stop time of the comments you are viewing and a word by word, sentence by sentence translation.

These events are chronological and this is a roughly edited sequence of events, as they unfolded. If you have any contribution to make or corrections concerning location and events, please use the comments and I'll respond to you. Note also, despite the heat of events on the ground, I have made an effort to be impartial. If some of the opposing sides are not represented, it was simply because I had no access to them.

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[4lantube]

how the heck did u get all these coverages?

[tbmpvideo]

@4lantube VIDEOGRAPHER Dodging bullets every step.

[sperle2009]

the woman at 8:56 kinda.........:( sad

[tbmpvideo]

@sperle2009 VIDEOGRAPHER She wouldn't move. I told her she should leave, before the troops reached the stage.

[barthoedemaker]

@lovelovelove833 the dicator is in the palace, his army regime rules him, law 112 lese majeste to protect them

[lovelovelove833]

...จง จับ ไอ้ ควย อภส. มา ประหาร ไอ้ฆาตกร มือเปื้อนเลือด ให้แม่ง ลอยนวน เย้ยฟ้าท้าดิน ได้ ไง? ไอ้เดียรฉาน สัตว์ป่า ไร้ยางอาย แม่งหน้าด้าน ต่ำเลวทราม ที่สุด...HANG EX-PM ABHISIT VEJJAJIVA, THE MURDERER, DICTATOR, TYRANT INHUMANE, SCUM AND BARBAROUS.