I wouldn't be surprised if someday, the pandemonium in Thailand would happen in this country too if the present occupant of Malacanang insists on holding on to power beyond her term limit.
"BANGKOK--Thai troops launched a crackdown Monday to enforce a state of emergency in Bangkok, firing warning shots and tear gas as anti-government protesters hurled petrol bombs in clashes that left 70 injured.Columns of smoke rose over the capital Bangkok as hundreds of heavily-armed soldiers cleared a busy intersection blocked by demonstrators calling for Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva to quit after just four months in office.
Abhisit issued an emergency decree in and around Bangkok on Sunday to curb mass protests against his government, a day after demonstrators forced the humiliating cancellation of a major Asian summit at the Pattaya beach resort.
The government said soldiers had cleared the intersection and arrested several of the red-clad protesters, who are loyal to Thaksin Shinawatra, the fugitive former premier ousted in a 2006 military coup."
Inq7.net
The Charter Change is a ticking time bomb which must be diffused. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo should heed the omens when she was hastily evacuated to a military airport from a Thai hotel during the failed ASEAN Summit in Pattaya.
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Photo courtesy of CNN
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