October 7, 200817 yr This is late breaking news. I imagine more details will be available later. The following appears in THE NATION: _____ Deputy PM Chavalit Resigns Deputy Prime Minister Gen Chavalit Yongchaiyudh tendered his resignation on Tuesday to take responsibility on police's use of forces and tear gas on anti-government protesters. Gen Chavalit is deputy prime minister in charge of security. Police fired tear gas and used forces to disperse the protesters who blocked and surrounded the Parliament on Tuesday morning. They wanted to block access of Members of Parliament to the Parliament to attend policy debate of Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawats' government.
October 7, 200817 yr Author Maybe I've seen too many movies or have watched one too many conspiracy theory programs on television, but I smell a rat with this resignation. First, this attack comes from the police, supposedly a tear gas attack, that results in people being killed and maimed, followed by the doctors who treated the victims saying there is no way these injuries came solely from a tear gas attack. A few hours later the Prime Minister actually has to climb over a fence to escape from the Parliament building. Then, only a few hours later comes the news that Chavalit is resigning because he's taking the responsibility for the attack. So far, there has been nothing to indicate that he's the one who even ordered the attack in the first place. I have yet to find one word in the media about who actually gave the orders to launch the attack, but you can bet it wasn't Corporal Pipsqueak. It had to be someone very high up in the ranks. Who? Why? Maybe I'm way off base here, but I can't help but have things like 'scapegoat' and 'sacrificial lamb' cross my mind.
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