We only had hand clapper, so why did police use force?
We only had hand clapper, so why did police use force?
By The Nation
Aranya Sukwan said she travelled from Songkhla on Monday night to join the protest at Parliament.
About 6am yesterday police and a group of 100 members of the Democratic Alliance against Dictatorship came to the crowd.
Then there was an explosion and police started to shoot at the |protesters. She confirmed the police claim that no tear gas was fired.
“This means the police want to kill people,” she said.
“They looked at us like dogs and I wonder why we have to kill each other as we’re all Thai. We came here because we love our dear country.
“We have no weapons. We only have hand-clappers,” she said.
“I want Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat to quit to save our country. This county doesn’t belong to one family, |it belongs to everyone.”
Reunchit Jiemsuphankul, 58, said she saw police throw a little girl down on the street and use a truncheon to club a woman.
“Don’t believe that police used tear gas to disperse us. They use night-sticks to hit a woman. |How could they do this?”
Pongpol Taveesuk, 46, said he saw police hurl tear gas at the crowd and his right leg and neck were hurt. He saw suspicious objects that looked like ping-pong balls also being heaved at the crowd.
Ubonwan Boonyoprapas, 47, said she saw hundreds of tear-gas canisters thrown into the crowd and her right leg was injured.
“Why do they use tear gas to disperse us? We didn’t have any weapons to fight them. We have only hand-clappers.”
Varapon Siraveth, 54, said she heard a sound like a bomb going off then there was tear gas. She ran away with her friend after she heard the blast behind her. She was frightened after she saw a man whose leg was mangled and bloody. “It’s clear that police used a bomb to break up protesters.”
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