State of emergency in Bangkok and Kyrgyzstan

[Das war einmal]

President Bakiyev has declared a state of emergency in protest-hit areas of Kyrgyzstan.
At least five people have been killed in clashes between police and protesters outside President Kurmanbek Bakiyev's offices.
The unrest has hit Talas, Bishkek and Narya. Residents have been describing what they have seen.




Besides that, the Kyrgyzstan minister of domestic affairs, seems to have been lynched in the riots.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/talking_point/8607533.stm


Thailand's Government has finally declared a state of emergency to try and seize the impetus from anti-government protesters who have held the nation's capital to ransom for days.
A wedge of anti-government protesters stormed the nation's Parliament today, forcing some parliamentarians to make an undignified exit down the back wall on a ladder and to flee in a military helicopter.


http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article7090315.ece

I'm not sure what to think of these 'redshirts' (they're no socialists or communists as far as I know). Their methods of demonstration seem somewhat unorthodox, by that I mean the gallons of blood they donate in order to literally smear the parliament.

[vyborg]

here (http://www.marxist.com/thailand-how-will-it-end.htm) a marxist analysis about the red shirts

[Antifa94]

17 are dead in Krygyzstan, I have a feeling there will be repercussions from the protesters.

[praxis1966]

I don't really know what to think about the situation in Thailand or Kyrgyzstan either. I've yet to see any reliable information on the demonstrators/rebels in either cause. I do know that the Thai Red Shirts are avowedly anti-monarchist, but as we all know from the Spanish Civil War that could mean damned near anything.