THAI PM MOVES TO RESTORE ORDER ITV News

Britons have been warned against travelling to Bangkok after violence broke out in the Thai capital.
The government has declared a state of emergency and ordered soldiers and armoured vehicles on to the streets.

But red-shirted anti-government protesters went unchecked, with angry mobs roaming parts of the capital and commandeering buses to barricade roads.

Protesters attacked a car thought to be carrying Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva as he fled the interior ministry after making the emergency decree.

The state of emergency came a day after demonstrators forced the cancellation of a 16-nation Asian summit, with leaders being evacuated by helicopter.

The Foreign Office urged anyone considering a trip to the capital or its surrounding areas to "urgently review their plans".

British ambassador to Thailand Quinton Quayle said: "As the situation is so volatile we are advising British travellers thinking of coming to Bangkok to urgently review their travel plans.

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[LAOS5000bc12phonna]

hahahahahahah yeah hahahahah

[ancestralblue]

There's a line that goes, "what you resist...persists." Putting the efforts into what we want, instead of what we don't is alot more productive. Don't you think?

[ELGROOVER]

Absolutely right Nom. Groups like "Stop The War Coalition" do some good highlighting issues th@ people should be giving more careful consider@ion to, but th@'s it. The STWC & others like them, shepherd large groups of unprepared & vulnerable people into Police traps & get them hurt in the process. It's a highly dubious kind of 'organis@ion' of people. There are better ideas than this kind of fragile 'false empowerment' resistance th@ they advc@e.

e.g. TPUC give real potential empowerment .

[nameofthepen]

I don't join or trust "organized resistance" anymore...

I have been too often disappointed to learn later that I had once again been sucker-punched by those who did not have our best interest at heart.