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Contract Out to Kill Me, Says Suthep, Urging Protesters to Bring Down Yingluck Even if He Dies First

Friday, January 17, 2014
In a tearful speech tonight, ''Shutdown Bangkok'' leader Suthep Thaugsuban called for the anti-government protest to widen and said there was a price on his head for paid assassins.

A ''mafia'' gambling chief had been engaged to kill him in exchange for a gambling concession across Bangkok, he said.

Khun Suthep moved last night from the five-star Intercontinental Bangkok to a tent in Lumpini Park at 2am when a ''good policeman'' relayed news of the kill contract.

He called on police to answer questions about a grenade blast this afternoon that injured 36 protesters and demanded that Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra respond.

In a televised speech from the Pathumwan rally stage, Khun Suthep showed a picture claiming that a cap found at the scene belonged to a police unit in the deep south Narathiwat province.

Khun Suthep challenged investigators to explain the blast and said he was waiting for answers from national police chief General Adul Saengsingkaew and Lieutenant General Kamronwit Thoopkrachang from the Metropolitan Police Bureau.

Evidence handed to police by protest investigators included three unassembled M16 rifles, four walkie-talkies and a cap bearing an ''attacking unit'' logo.

Khun Suthep said that from 10am tomorrow, he would continue his walks through Bangkok streets knowing he was a target.

He said he had made preparations for his death, and that the protest movement would meet the hospital costs of the 36 people - including one man from Phuket - wounded in today's grenade blast.

Khun Suthep urged protesters to keep fighting until the Shinawatra family had been forced from the country: ''Prime Minister, you are evil.''

There had been 27 incidents involving violence perpetrated during this week's non-violent protest, Khun Suthep said, and yet the police had not managed to solve a single one.

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" 'good policeman' " relayed news of the kill contract.

Wow! Where did he find one of them?

Posted by Buster on January 18, 2014 13:52

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Personally given the circumstances of recent events, perhaps at least detaining Suthep for his own person safety would prevent serious reprisals. This guy is a walking ticking time-bomb, and thefore it is in the interest of the country and possible civil war that should something happen to him, then indeed we gone past the point of no return.

Posted by reader on January 18, 2014 15:00


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