Photos of the crisis in Thailand

April 13th, 2009 by Nicholas Farrelly · 7 Comments

Readers hoping to get a more visual insight into the current showdown in Bangkok will find a number of eye-opening images at Thai Photo Blogs. A much more graphic image of this morning’s carnage is available here (Warning: please don’t click if you will be disturbed by a blood-soaked picture). Readers who come across other useful or informative images (or who have taken such pictures themselves) are welcome to post links to them here.

Tags: Abhisit · Snapshots · Thailand · UDD

7 responses so far ↓

1 Colum Graham // Apr 13, 2009 at 8:09 pm

Flickr has loads of people uploading their photos of the unfolding events.

For example: http://www.flickr.com/photos/edgemalaysia/show/with/3437505540/
2 Jim Taylor // Apr 14, 2009 at 12:47 am

In he last two hours two monks, two women and one 12 year old girl were shot: The BBC and CNN have been hopeless in their coverage just mouthing the government’s propaganda and CNN’s Dan Rivers- just a useless young reporter who has no idea what is going on. Sad. Pictures are available on http://thaienews.blogspot.com/
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3 arthurson // Apr 14, 2009 at 1:19 pm

Tuesday morning 14-04-2009 at 9.00 a.m. I tried to access the thaienews.blogspot from inside Thailand and it was being blocked by the Thai government censors. The warning message in English states that “This URL has been blocked by a Court Order…” which is most likely a lie because their habit is to block first and get a court order later, if ever. Now I am interested to see how many other photo sites are being blocked.
4 Mungo Gubbins // Apr 15, 2009 at 12:18 am

Thaksin’s desire to create martyrs for his great cause (essentially pride and 73 billion baht) is unsuprising. His call for the red shirts bring their children along for the cause is also true to form. What I find much harder to comprehend is the motivation behind Jim Taylor, David Brown & co’s collaboration in the creation of fictional martyrs when the real thing failed to materialize. Are they really so desperate & disapointed?
5 Colum Graham // Apr 16, 2009 at 9:08 pm

Here are some more:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3337/3445009694_33b63632cf_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3629/3444212955_457272f37f_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3332/3444966218_e61b3f71cd_b.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3311/3444149995_1c23277afd_b.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3408/3444205153_2378f202bb_b.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3323/3444233971_88a237f4f5_b.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3359/3444224333_3ecee41405_b.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3594/3444219519_b1c16da868_b.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3356/3437207901_c14c65fea4_b.jpg

& this guy took some excellent photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikethomas/
6 Oliver // Apr 17, 2009 at 8:05 pm

Also see:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/31465043@N02/sets/72157616838636462/
7 Graham Roberts // Apr 19, 2009 at 8:36 pm

There are also some very good photos and editorial at http://photojourn.wordpress.com

He seems to have been in a lot of places.

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