Friday, 30 July 2010




Filed at 3:22 p.m. ET BANGKOK (AP) -- Red Shirt protester Sakhorn Iamsri strides the front line with a slingshot hanging from his jeans pocket. If the walnut-sized stones he shoots fail to hurt the Thai soldiers gathered behind sandbag bunkers, Sakhorn and his comrades have an arsenal to fall back on: firecrackers shot from metal pipes, Red Bull bottles brimming with glass shards, Molotov cocktails, burning tires and other weapons fashioned with ingenuity and scrap. If it sounds like a David and...
Full Story: The New York Times



 

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