WRAP Blockades, rail suspension, reax, "red shirts" comment
(27 Apr 2010) SHOTLIST 1. Wide of closed entrance to Chit Lom station 2. Close of sign reading (Thai/English) "This station is temporarily closed. We expect it to reopen in ..." 3. Wide of station with steel security grille outside 4. Police inside train station seen through gate 5. Wide of empty ticket gates 6. Mid of police in station 7. Sign on barricade reading: (Thai/English) "No service" 8. Wide of Major General Anuchai Lekbumrung, Metropolitian Police Division 5 Commander, talking to reporters 9. SOUNDBITE: (Thai) Major General Anuchai Lekbumrung, Metropolitian Police Division 5 Commander: "After some talks with protest leaders and security guards of the UDD (United Front of Democracy against Dictatorship), all tyres have been removed. They were originally placed on the platform to obstruct access to the train." 10. Soldier monitoring traffic, skytrain railway line above road 11. Mid of soldiers on overhead pass 12. Wide of soldiers wearing riot gear on street 13. Close of soldiers 14. Wide of news conference by leaders of "Red Shirt" protesters 15. SOUNDBITE: (Thai) Nattawut Saikua, Red Shirt protest leader: "If the soldiers would have come by BTS (Bangkok Train System) with heavy weapons, it only made sense that we would defend ourselves. This is a precaution for the safety of the public." 16. Reverse shot of news conference 17. SOUNDBITE: (Thai) Nattawut Saikua, Red Shirt protest leader: "Our march will be done peacefully. If the government says that we can''t gather at any other point around the city, and will want to crack down on us, we have to ask: why don''t they crack down on the multicoloured group that gathers at different spots of the city everyday?" 18. Wide of cameras then pan to Red Shirt protest leaders during news briefing ++NIGHT SHOTS++ 19. Convoy of buses and trucks with soldiers passing through road blocks, protesters throwing objects at the buses 20. Wide top shot of police vans and truck with barricades and barbed wire 21 Wide of truck with roadblocks 22. Protesters throwing roadblocks from military truck 23. Protesters releasing air from tyres of military truck 24. Wide of protesters throwing roadblocks from military truck 25. Various of protesters surrounding military humvee and truck with soldiers 26. Various of soldiers on board truck surrounded by protesters 27. Pan of rubbish truck blocking military humvee and truck with soldiers 28. Various of riot police patrolling STORYLINE Protesters broke into an elevated rail station in Thailand''s capital and threw tyres on the platform on Tuesday in their campaign to remove the government, prompting authorities to briefly suspend service and send soldiers to guard train stops. The four-hour closure of Bangkok''s Skytrain caused commuter chaos during the morning rush hour and raised concerns in the tense capital where hundreds of soldiers armed with automatic weapons were deployed to guard stations and other major city boulevards. A government spokesman said security forces were deployed to provide security for the public at Skytrain stations and on highways leading to Bangkok, after the protesters, known as the Red Shirts, tried to block incoming soldiers and police. Nattawut Saikua, a Red Shirt protest leader, said supporters staged the pre-dawn intrusion to the Chit Lom station of the Skytrain, which is adjacent to the main protest site, after hearing that soldiers would use the trains to send reinforcements to their main protest site. The incident occurred before service had started for the day. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter: / ap_archive Facebook: / aparchives Instagram: / apnews You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...
