Thailand’s wounded relive bloody Bangkok clashes
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BANGKOK — Perched on a hospital bed, Jantara Jantasuk says he remembers troops clashing with protesters and a volley of gunshots and explosions before a bullet pierced his torso, knocking him to the ground.
He was one of more than 800 persons wounded on April 10 after a failed army crackdown on Red Shirt anti-government demonstrators sparked street battles in Bangkok that left 23 persons dead in the worst civil violence in 18 years....
“Soldiers and Red Shirts were trying to push each another back and forth. I didn’t see who shot me. I was still conscious but I fell down immediately,” says the 35-year-old, who collapsed in the capital’s historic quarter... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
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