Molotov Cocktails

Fortunately, we are at the country house, but the violence that turned Bangkok into an "urban war zone" (Bangkok Post) happened just outside our apartment in Din Daeng.

On TV, I saw my neighbors yelling at the red-shirted idiots and then cheering when the soldiers came in to clear them out. I would have been cheering, too. The red mob was throwing Molotov cocktails at my neighbors--simple people in Din Daeng flats who want a peaceful neighborhood. We're lucky they didn't set the neighborhood on fire.

I don't support either the yellow mob or the red mob, but like my neighbors I want safe streets for my children to play in and clear passage between home, school and work.

This red mob is disgusting. It doesn't surprise me that they attacked peaceful Muslim vendors. They are drunken rabble being paid by Thaksin's henchmen to run riot. At least the yellow mob didn't drink alcohol--with Gen. Chamlong in charge, it was strictly forbidden.

The red mob's main weapon is the Molotov cocktail--petrol bombs in brown bottles. I have noticed the Molotov cocktails come in two sizes: the larger uses a Beer Chang bottle, and the smaller uses a lao kao (rice whiskey) bottle.