Sunday, April 27, 2014

Slow Saturday Special: Grenade Attacks Highlight Neglect of Thailand

It's because those protests are not approved by the agenda-pu$hing paper and its ma$ters:

"Thailand newspaper, court attacked | Associated Press   April 26, 2014

BANGKOK — Grenades were fired at a newspaper headquarters and a court in Thailand’s capital, police said Friday, as political tensions heated up ahead of a court ruling over the fate of the prime minister. No one was hurt in the attacks.

The first grenade left a small crater outside a building in the Daily News compound in northern Bangkok’s Lak Si district on Thursday night, police Colonel Kamthorn Auicharoen said.

Another grenade landed Thursday night inside the gate of the Administrative Court in the city’s northern outskirts, near an antigovernment protest site, he said. It was not immediately clear whether the grenade was aimed at the court or the protesters.

Either way, it sure looks like the work of the CIA-supported Red Shirts.

The attacks came ahead of a court ruling expected in the coming weeks that could force Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra to step down. She is accused of abusing her position by removing the Council of National Security chief from his post in 2011.

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Related: Contrasting Coverage Between Thailand and Taiwan 

You can decide for yourself whether Globe coverage is worthy.