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KT_Elwood
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Shortizz
Singapore129 Posts
On August 20 2015 01:43 Gorsameth wrote: I think the lack of discussion comes from a lack of info. No one has claimed the attack and I don't know how many here on TL have good knowledge of the situation in Thailand. I was in thailand when it happened. Everyones avoiding tourist hotspots and the airport is jam packed, the police havent released much info other than the death toll. But yeah, the only finger pointing i saw on the news seem to suggest that it has sometehing to do with targeting tourist especially chinese visitors. Other theories i heard are the Yellow vs Red thing and muslim terrorist down from the southerns states. | ||
Shortizz
Singapore129 Posts
On August 20 2015 02:07 KT_Elwood wrote: Assholes, assholes everywhere. Since Thailand is under a military regime ( the legit Government was overthrown, it did not please the rich) I would recommend NOT to go there. Or Birma, where Extremist-Buddhist monks slaughter muslims. Actually, the previous government formed by Yingluck was voted in by the lower income population and that DID not pleased the rich(Yellow shirt) lol. | ||
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Thai police issued an arrest warrant and released a sketch Wednesday of the chief suspect in the deadly bombing of a Bangkok shrine, saying they believed the culprit was acting as part of a wider network. Authorities are also looking for two other individuals, who were seen in CCTV footage at the scene and considered to be suspects. “He didn't do it alone for sure,” national chief of police Somyot Poompanmoung told the press, referring to the man in a yellow T-shirt in a grainy video thought responsible for the blast on Monday in the Thai capital that killed 20 people — nearly half of them tourists. So far, no one has claimed responsibility for the blast. Source | ||
parazice
Thailand5517 Posts
oh wait it my country | ||
crappen
Norway1546 Posts
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Gorsameth
Netherlands20757 Posts
On August 20 2015 19:40 crappen wrote: Talking to a local lady, she say thais are also not sure if americans are behind it, something about the Thai / Chinese relationship, and the US cold war against china. Anyone ? Really? America bombing shrines because of a cold war with China? I'm sorry but that's just beyond insane talk. | ||
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The bomb site in Bangkok the day after the Hindu shrine bombing which killed 20 people - thousands of Buddhist monks and clergy from Christianity, Hinduism, Sikhism, and Islam pray for peace. | ||
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BANGKOK, Aug 20 (Reuters) -- International terrorists were not suspected of a bomb attack in Bangkok this week that killed 20 people and China was not the target, Thai authorities said on Thursday, as police said they believed at least 10 plotters were involved. There has been no claim of responsibility for the Monday evening attack on a famous shrine crowded with tourists, which the government has said was designed to wreck the economy. Authorities have not blamed any group for carrying out Thailand's worst bombing. "Security agencies have cooperated with agencies from allied countries and have come to the preliminary conclusion that the incident is unlikely to be linked to international terrorism," said Colonel Winthai Suvaree, a spokesman for Thailand's ruling junta, known as the National Council for Peace and Order. The Erawan shrine is particularly popular with tourists from China and other East Asian countries, and 14 foreigners were among the dead, including seven from mainland China and Hong Kong, but Winthai said Chinese tourists were not believed to have been the target. He did not elaborate or say who might have been responsible. Source | ||
Onegu
United States9694 Posts
On August 20 2015 02:07 KT_Elwood wrote: Assholes, assholes everywhere. Since Thailand is under a military regime ( the legit Government was overthrown, it did not please the rich) I would recommend NOT to go there. Or Birma, where Extremist-Buddhist monks slaughter muslims. The Burma part is true. The Thai part not so much. Like I was living there with my wife and kids even when all the riots were going on and as long as you didn't go to the rally sites things were fine. | ||
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Thai police have cleared two suspects in the Bangkok shrine bombing after one of them turned himself in and said he was a tour guide, and the other was a Chinese tourist. National police spokesman Lt Gen Prawut Thavornsiri said the two men were “definitely” no longer suspects. The two men were seen in a security video standing in front of a man dressed in a yellow T-shirt who police have identified as the main suspect, shortly before the bomb exploded on Monday evening. Three days after the bombing, which killed 20, the motives remain unclear and there has been no claim of responsibility. Authorities appear to have few solid leads and have given confusing and sometimes contradictory statements on the investigation. A spokesman for the ruling military junta on Thursday said the attack was unlikely to be the work of an international terror group, the day an arrest warrant issued for the main suspect described him as an “unnamed foreigner”. Police have not said how they reached that conclusion. Source | ||
meegrean
Thailand7699 Posts
Source The Thai junta does not want to admit that it could be an international terrorist attack because they want to protect the tourism industry (which is already beginning to suffer from the bombing). | ||
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Thai police said Sunday the man arrested in connection with Bangkok's deadly bombing was being uncooperative, possibly not telling the truth to interrogators and would remain in military custody for at least seven days. The unnamed foreigner was arrested Saturday at an apartment on the outskirts of Bangkok where police seized bomb-making equipment and fake passports. It was the first possible breakthrough in the investigation into the Aug. 17 blast at the Erawan Shrine, which killed 20 people, more than half of whom were foreigners, and injured more than 120 others. National police spokesman Prawuth Thavornsiri told The Associated Press that police found "more than 200 passports" in the man's apartment, including many that were empty, and police were exploring the theory that he was part of a network that provided fake passports to migrants. He said the passports were from one country, but wouldn't say which one. He did not explain why a passport gang might target a religious shrine. Much remains unknown about the suspect, including his nationality, his motive, his relationship to the alleged bombing network or if he was plotting an attack, Prawuth said, adding that another attack was "possible" because police found 10 detonators. Source | ||
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Thai authorities arrested a man they believe is part of a group responsible for a bombing at a shrine in central Bangkok two weeks ago, the prime minister announced Tuesday. He said the suspect resembles a yellow-shirted man in a surveillance video who police say planted the bomb. "It would be great if he were [the bomber]. Then we will know who they are, where they came from, who's behind this," Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha told reporters. He said the man is a foreigner and was detained in eastern Thailand near the Cambodian border, one of several border crossings where authorities set up checkpoints after the Aug. 17 bombing which killed 20 people, many of them foreign tourists, and injured more than 120. Prayuth said authorities plan to check fingerprints and conduct DNA tests to establish whether the man is the bomber. Police say they obtained the bomber's DNA from a motorcycle taxi and a three-wheeled tuk-tuk taxi that he used. Prayuth said officials knew from their investigation that people involved in the bombing were about to flee the country and had traced the man to Aranyaprathet district in Sa Kaeo, a major crossing point to Cambodia. Source | ||
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Police in Thailand say they are ready to prosecute two suspects in connection with the August bombing of a prominent religious shrine in central Bangkok that killed 20 people and wounded 120 others. Authorities say that one of the two suspects is "yellow-shirt man" seen in a closed circuit video leaving a backpack behind moments before the deadly blast. The second man is said to have been an accomplice. Earlier this month, police had said that neither of the men were "main suspects" after Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha initially said that one of them was the bomber. At least 15 other people are still being sought in connection with the bombing that police say was motivated by people smugglers whose operation was broken up by Thai authorities. A warrant for at least one other suspect, a woman, is still outstanding. "Today, police are confident Adem [Karadag] and Yusufu [Mieraili] are the real attackers," National Police Chief Somyot Poomphanmuang told reporters. "Adem is the yellow-shirted man who planted the bomb. Yusufu is the one who exploded the bomb." Somyot declared the investigation complete despite the numerous suspects who remain at large. Source | ||
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