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CommentsAdd your comment using the form below. Want an avatar for your comments? Register with Gravatar. Could the army not have used tear gas and rubber bullets to spread the mob in order to let the ambulance car pass? Posted by Kurt on October 11, 2015 21:58 What a sad sad story. These violent hooligans should be arrested for what transpired yesterday and jailed and I hope it happens. The death of an innocent man on his way to hospital is on these protestors hands. Arrest and jail them. Posted by Ciaran on October 11, 2015 22:05 Although it is convenient to blame the blockade, some serious questions should be asked as to why a critical care patient was transported in this matter. Thailand can afford to purchase submarines, but still does not have a basic air ambulance service. Posted by Ryan on October 11, 2015 22:34 What has happened to the people of Phuket? Posted by reader on October 12, 2015 00:13 Another example of the pack mentality that seems to be endemic in Phuket Posted by Shwe on October 12, 2015 05:53 This behaviour is nothing new in Phuket. Posted by Sir Burr on October 12, 2015 07:36 Editor Comment: There is no comparison, Sir Burr. Every blockade is different. In some cases, all other avenues in seeking justice have been exhausted. That was certainly the case with the Tantalum factory in 1986 - but not with the weekend riot. Local authorities also weren't there as peacemakers at the right time at the weekend. They should have been. The right to protest in the streets is legitimate. But it's evident that the weekend rioters had not exhausted all other means for seeking justice. Once the hotheads took charge, police were injured and an ambulance was forced to take a much longer route. Those who chose violence should be punished. I believe destruction of the Tantalum factory, costing the government millions of dollars, was accepted. The plant should never have been built on Phuket without consultation. A bit like the movie museum on the Nai Harn foreshore . . . This is so sad. Accountability... where is it? Accountability on ALL levels. Posted by Duncan on October 12, 2015 08:08 ED, your comment seems to justify mob behaviour and arson if "all other avenues in seeking justice have been exhausted". Posted by Sir Burr on October 12, 2015 09:25 Editor Comment: My comment doesn't ''seem to justify'' anything. Your ability to read and accurately interpret what you read is the problem, Sir Burr. As intelligent readers know, PW is opposed to all violence. Peaceful street protests are permissible, when all other attempts at gaining justice have been exhausted. I support those families, the video is clear, the police truck deliberately rammed those young men and the police would have not been punished but for this protest, which regrettably got out of hand. Posted by Sam C on October 12, 2015 12:30 Editor Comment: There is no way of knowing whether the police would have been punished or not, Sam C. Guesswork is not ideal. Now it's in the hands of an independent investigation. That could have been achieved without violence. Sick & tired of mob rule - in Phuket - or anywhere else in the world - it allows the thugs & idiots free rein to permit bad behavioral acts they know they could not get away with under normal circumstances. Posted by Logic on October 12, 2015 12:56 But in the US these protesters would have been branded terrorists and mowed down with guns. Posted by daman on October 12, 2015 14:42 wenn you read the newspaper every week they take drug travelers and dealers from the streets ! they have always guns and weapons and every thai know that this people mostly not stop when police controls same by accidents 50% of the accident the drivers speed away dear editor what shall the police do ??? my question who owns the cars and motorbike what are burning who pay ?? the men who stop the ambulance killed also somebody for sure nobody find him when the boys stop like every thai and farlang has do do than would be happen nothing correct !!!! Posted by donaldo on October 12, 2015 21:48 Editor Comment: We've always said that police pursuits on Phuket's motorcycle-packed roads would be too dangerous and we still believe that's true. Turning back the ambulance was shocking but it will be difficult to prove that delay was a cause of death. |
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Selfish people Suck.
And cause deaths too.
Posted by farang888 on October 11, 2015 21:48