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Here is the latest update and analysis after the fatal blast on 20 November.

At 3:25am today, another bomb dropped inside the government house area. BangkokBizNews reports “in front of PAD stage”.. over 10 injuries.

Around 5am “1 just reported DEAD” from the stage.

PAD is guilty to commit a crime on acquiring a government house area and block several road, disturbing other people.

A hole on the tent roof... now what?... asteroid?

But no one is legitimate to fire a bomb or kill anyone by that.

Sae-dang just spoke to the press that he doesn’t care anymore if his daughter (who live in the next room in the same house) will die in the PAD protesting area. What kind of person is this?

News Update

After explosion in front of the PAD stage - from BangkokBizNews.com

1 killed, 26 injured in explosion in Government House

By The Nation

One protester was killed and 26 other were injured when a bomb exploded inside the Government House complex in front of the main stage of the People’s Alliance for Democracy early Thursday morning.

Guards and protesters said the explosion occurred at 3:25 am, just a day after the so-called ceasefire during the royal cremation period.

PAD guards rushed the 27 injured protesters to four hospitals. One of them later died at the hospital. He was identified as Jenjit Kladsakhon, 48. The bomb shrapnel inflicted a 2-cm-deep wound on his throat.

Ten injured were rushed to the Phra Monkut Hospital, 8 to Ramathibodi Hospital, 3 to Central Hospital, 1 to Vajira Hospital and 5 to Chulalongkorn Hospital.

Police were not allowed to check the explosion scene which the PAD guards cordoned off.

Following the explosion, PAD guards would not allow anyone to leave the Government House compound unless he or she carried an ID card.

The guards speculated that the bomb might be fired from behind the Civil Service Commission head office or from a building of the office.

Sujitra Chaiphet, 55, a protester from Lampang, said she was woken up by the explosion sound.

She then heard a lot of people screaming painfully and saw many people covered with blood on their arms and body, most of them women.

Despite the explosion, she said she would continue her protest at the Government House.

Earlier, Maj Gen Khattiaya Sawasdiphol, an expert attached to the Army head office, threatened the PAD with bomb attacks, saying if the protesters did not leave the Government House complex soon, they would be attacked with bombs daily.

The explosion also came after Jatuporn Promphan, a personal spokesman of former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, quoted the ousted leader as saying there would be no more peace in Thailand.

Source: 1 killed, 26 injured in explosion in Government House (The Nation)

Does this fatal blast scare away PADs?

Paramedics transport an injured man to a hospital after a grenade attack on protesters at the Government House in Bangkok November 20, 2008. - Reuters (Click for Slide Show from Reuters)

The explosion, the fourth and the most serious assault on the People’s Alliance for Democracy (PAD), drew more people to the Government House protest zone to offer their support to a hard core of a few

“When I heard of the death, I decided to come with friends to support my colleagues here in ousting the government,” said one well-dressed woman in her early 30s who declined to given her name.

A computer repairman in his 50s who had not gone back to sleep since the explosion said he would not be going home.

“I was afraid when the first or second bombs were thrown at us, but I am now indifferent to those threats,” he said.

Opinion polls have shown waning support for the PAD in the last month, in large part because of the royalist movement’s refusal to dismantle street barricades to allow royal motorcades past for last weekend’s cremation of the king’s sister.

However, many continue to see their campaign as the last line of defense against a Thaksin plot — vehemently denied — to unseat Thailand’s revered monarchy, and some said they were prepared to lay down their lives for the cause.

“It would be honorable to die here rather than being killed in a road accident,” said one woman in her 40s from Trang province, 830 km (510 miles) south of Bangkok.

Source: Grenade fails to scare hardcore Thai protesters (Reuters)

Dishonorable Motives set by Thai Police

The police are looking at three possible angles behind yesterday’s pre-dawn bomb attack on People’s Alliance for Democracy (PAD) protesters, according to Special-Branch Police chief Lt-General Thiradej Rodphothong

The incident, which erupted inside the Government House compound, killed one person and injured 26 others

Thiradej said the bomb attack might have been intended to boost turnout at the PAD protest site, to scare protesters out of Government House, or was the result of internal conflict in the PAD.

Source: Police probing motives behind blast at protest site (The Nation)

Further Police’s Investigation

Police said the bomb, which exploded yesterday, might have been launched from the Council of Civil Service Office building about 50 metres away.

The bomb, initially thought to be a lone 40mm explosives round, landed at around 3.25am about 15 metres from a stage where PAD announcers were reading news reports.

When it exploded, shrapnel from the bomb fatally hit Jenkij Kladsakhon, and injured several other PAD supporters. Jenkij was taken to Ramathibodi Hospital where he died while undergoing treatment.

According to the hospital, what looked like bomb shrapnel cut Jenkij’s main artery in the neck, ruptured many of his air sacs and bruised his lungs.

“We will send the small metal pieces found in his wounds to experts for examination,” said Dr Wicharn Piawnim, head of the hospital’s forensic laboratory.

Source: Police probing motives behind blast at protest site (The Nation)

What happened to Sae Dang? (The Dancing Warrior)

Maj-Gen Khattiya Sawasdipol was furious yesterday over the new assignment given to him by army chief Gen Anupong Paojinda – to promote aerobics.

Khattiya: The Dancing Warrior - BangkokPost.com

The army specialist, also known as Seh Daeng, has been ordered to be part of an army team promoting better health and sports. The team, led by Lt-Gen Chirasit Kesakomol, another army specialist, will meet Maj-Gen Khattiya next Thursday to work out a plan to promote aerobics at various market places.

Maj-Gen Khattiya said his new job was not suitable for him, as he considered himself a fighter.

“It is ridiculous to send me, a warrior, to dance at markets,” he said. He also blasted the army chief for breaking a gentleman’s agreement to promote him after Gen Anupong became the army leader.

“The army chief wants me to be a presenter leading aerobic dancers. I have prepared one dance. It’s called the throwing-a-hand-grenade dance,” said Maj-Gen Khattiya, a strong critic of the People’s Alliance for Democracy.

Source: Seh Daeng hopping mad (BangkokPost.com)

Where we are heading to?

Whatever happens this Sunday, when the pro- and anti-Thaksin camps will stage their new shows of force, it is unlikely to change Thailand’s foreseeable future. We seem to be rolling relentlessly toward real dictatorship, as whoever emerges the winner or gains a substantial upper hand from this showdown will have to resort to drastic measures to make sure the other side cannot bounce back this time.

One of the bad signs is that talk in favour of another coup is not only limited to the anti-Thaksin camp now.

It has spread to the other side and we can now hear some of Thaksin’s sympathisers say they wouldn’t mind a friendly military intervention in favour of the ousted leader.

The worst sign of all regarding our country’s future, however, may have come from you and me, the way we reacted to the grenade explosion that killed one person inside Government House. Were you shocked into silence, and sad and nervous all day? Or did you just grimly absorb the news and go about your daily routines, worried more about whether your company will give a year-end bonus?

Apathy, in many cases, is evil’s way of preparing us for worse things to come.

Source: Preparing for worse things to come (The Nation)
Read more about Worries grow over rival rallies (The Nation)

Other News Resources

• Bangkok protest blast kills one, wounds 29 (AFP, Yahoo)
• Fatal blast hits Bangkok protest (BBC) with video clip
• Thai protesters blame government for grenade attack (Reuters)

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