Thailand: Regime's "Men in Black" Strike Again
January 11, 2014 (ATN) – There have been several troubling warnings by the regime and its backers that they plan to deploy covert violence against protesters and their own police in order to disrupt growing dissent against the embattled regime of dictator Thaksin Shinawatra. These warnings are coming ahead of a fourth mass mobilization this Monday, January 13, 2014, and after nearly nightly attacks on protesters by “men in black” gunmen. Previous mobilizations have seen over a million people take to the streets, dwarfing even the biggest pro-regime rallies held years ago at the height of its now dwindling popularity.
The threats by the regime are serious, and several of them have already come to pass during clashes beginning at the end of November.
1. Late November 2013: Just days before the first deadly violence, pro-regime scribe Andrew MacGregor Marshall, formally of Reuters and now hired pen for Thaksin Shinawatra’s lobbyist Robert Amsterdam would write in a Facebook post titled, “News Update From the Bangkok Protests” that:
Thaksin Shinawatra’s secret “black shirt” force of provocateurs, mostly made up of navy SEALS and marines, is back on the streets again for the first time since May 2010 and has infiltrated Suthep’s rabble. If protests escalate they will seek to incite deadly violence ahead of King Bhumibol’s birthday to discredit Suthep and his movement for good.
Marshall would also claim that a “very reliable source” had passed this information onto him, and assured fellow regime supporters that “if protesters kill civilians or police, that does not discredit the government.” On November 30, when clashes broke out between regime supporters and angry students, the regime’s black-clad gunmen appeared, shooting into crowds. Both protesters and regime supporters would be left dead in the mayhem.
This, I think, is likely to occur next week, and I expect both some of the protesters and many of the most aggressive—and, frankly, stupid—police to break out weaponry, including potentially even live ammunition.
This violent confrontation, of course, is exactly what the leaders of the anti-government demonstrations want, and not what the caretaker government wants—or what most Thais, including most Bangkokians want. (A fine recent article in Khao Sod shows that most Thais do not want this kind of confrontation in Bangkok.) But at this point the caretaker government has less and less control over the hardest-core elements of the police force, and though the Yingluck government thus far has exercised a high level of restraint in dealing with the protesters, basically allowing the demonstrators to do largely whatever they want, I don’t know that the government can stop the coming confrontation.
And the end game, I think, is going to be a coup. I did not think so a month ago, but it seems highly likely now. A coup would be a tragedy, and even more dangerous and retrograde than in 2006, but it seems to be coming now.
Caretaker Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said on Friday that the government is capable of controlling the situation during the planned shutdown.
But she admitted that she is concerned that “third hand” groups would take this opportunity to incite violence.
She called on all parties to turn back from confrontation and enter talks to look for ways out of the political crisis through the stage of the government’s reform council, which will operate in parallel with the election.
Ms Yingluck said a general election, scheduled to take place on Feb 2, is necessary.
Source: http://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2014/01/thailand-regimes-men-in-black-strike.html
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