Thoughts from Bangkok: The evolving Red Shirt protests
May 18th 2010 When I walked out into Sukhumvit Road yesterday there were no more smiles, no light-hearted jokes, and a sense of foreboding permeated every space.
When I walked into my local 7/11 I asked why they had covered the windows with newspaper to make the inside of the shop invisible to the outside world.
"Snipers"
I asked why the alcohol had been removed from the shelves.
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