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Thailand charges ex-PM Thaksin with terrorism

World May. 26, 2010 - 03:46AM JST ( 2 )

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smithinjapanMay. 26, 2010 - 10:56AM JST

I'm not sure that this is going to help things in terms of mollifying the opposition.
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sickearthMay. 28, 2010 - 01:12PM JST

just some key situation before and during the violence.

26 Febuary, Supreme court order seizing more than half of Thaksin’s 1.4 billion (US.)dollar fortune same day thaksin on his twitter said "I will fight in every way that I can." (http://twitter.com/thaksinlive - look for what he said in feb 26 if you can read thai.)

12 March, Red Shirt protesters which backs ousted former premier Thaksin Shinawatra arrive at the streets of Bangkok.

28 March, first round of peace talk btw government and protesters start.

29 March, 2nd round talk came to agreement that they will dissolving the House of Representatives, but no agreement on new election date. and not thing on give back thaksin money.

30 March, the protesters announce that they will not do the peace talk any more!! the the government try the whole week to get them back to the table but they didn't want to. (google it for those won't believe.)

then after the first crash

3 May, Abhisit announces Nov 14 to be the election day, but only if Red Shirts will end protest in Bangkok.

4 May, the leaders of the red shirt protester "publicly" said that they agree with the Nov14 election.

11 May, a week later, protester still in bangkok blocking the business area, no answer yet of when they will leave.

14 May, big crackdown.