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Thai troops moved to clear United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship demonstrators, widely known as Red Shirts, from the Phan Fa Bridge and Ratchadamnoen area of Bangkok on April 10, 2010. The protesters had demanded that Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva dissolve parliament and call elections. Fighting continued into the night around Khok Wua and Khao San Road. Japanese cameraman Hiro Muramoto was among those killed.

Early emergency-service figures listed 20 or 21 dead and 874 injured, while a later count put the deaths at 25. The wider political crisis from March through May killed at least 90 people. Accounts dispute who fired during the April clashes, including the role of armed men described as "black shirts."

The photographs cover events from April 7 to April 11 in Bangkok and at the Thaicom satellite station in Pathum Thani. They show demonstrators storming parliament, crowds confronting troops and police, an overturned army truck, protesters on an armored personnel carrier at Democracy Monument, casualties receiving aid, tear gas, burning fuel, seized riot equipment and red coffins carried in a procession after the fighting.

Also covered here: Photographic Time Line

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Anti-government protesters return weapons they snatched from security at Parliament to the police in Bangkok April 7, 2010. "Red shirt" protesters briefly occupied the grounds of Thailand's parliament on Wednesday as they stepped up pressure on the government to call an election. Hundreds of protesters, who have already forced the capital's main shopping district to close since Saturday, pushed through a thin line of riot police, but then left after about 20 minutes and massed outside the building.

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Thailand's Member of Parliament Varong Dejkijvikrom of the Democrat Party, right, holds the ladder for an unidentified woman official as they flee the Parliament before anti-government protesters storm the building Wednesday, April 7, 2010 in Bangkok, Thailand. Emboldened anti-government protesters briefly stormed Thailand's Parliament building Wednesday as lawmakers scaled walls to flee and a Black Hawk helicopter evacuated VIPs trapped by the encircling crowd, officials said.

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Weapons seized from Thai riot policemen by Red Shirt protesters are returned after clashes at Thaicom station in Pathum Thani on the outskirts of Bangkok on April 9, 2010. Thai security forces used tear gas and water cannon against anti-government protesters who stormed a television station on the outskirts of Bangkok, an AFP reporter witnessed.

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ITN news feature

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no one else likes this set?

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thx gutts good pics


i was reading this this morning
inspired me to make that thread about protesting

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i just think it's interesting that there's riots like this happening right in thailand at the same time as in krygysztan (sp?)

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the whole world seems like it is nuts right now

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yup, earthquakes, floods, volcanoes and riots all over the place