Despite 90 dead unarmed civilians Thai Army snipers claim: “We used fake bullets” | Asia News – Politics, Media, Education | Asian Correspondent

Despite 90 dead unarmed civilians Thai Army snipers claim: “We used fake bullets” | Asia News – Politics, Media, Education | Asian Correspondent
Andrew Spooner Aug 29, 2012

Whilst the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times and other associated bloggers and foreign media are fixated on the non-lethal lies of the Thailand’s finance minister, the leaders of Thailand’s Democrat Party and their allies in the Thai Army remain able to lie, scheme and threaten with complete impunity.

As discussed yesterday, the Democrat Party leader Abhisit Vejjajiva was reported to be making what can only be called “threats” to the democratically elected government of Yingluck Shinawatra. At the same time his former Deputy, Suthep Thaugsuban, was making remarkable claims that he had no knowledge of the Thai Army shooting at Red Shirts in April 2010.

A Thai Army sniper/marksman "not" shooting at anyone

Bizarre as that all may sound both Suthep and Abhisit were completely upstaged today by two Thai Army snipers who reported to an investigation panel at Thailand’s Department of Special Investigation to be questioned regarding the deaths of unarmed civilians, many of them shot in the head in marksman like fashion, during the Red Shirt protests in April and May 2010.

The reported response to questioning by the DSI from these snipers is that yes they shot at the Red Shirts but  that they only used “fake bullets“. So all those corpses piled up on the streets were just play acting I take it? Is the 16year old boy in this harrowing footage who was left to die on the street after being shot in the head, “faking” it as well?

Given the overwhelming and incontrovertible evidence that not only were Thai Army snipers/marksmen deployed against unarmed civilians in 2010 – the orders to do so are here and video footage is here – what is even more incredible is that these “lethal lies” have and will be completely ignored by the international media working in Thailand.

Given that this media has been an active part of the cover-up of the murders of Thai civilians in 2010 their on-going collaboration is to be expected.

But what is certain is that the international media in Bangkok, while they only report the “white non-lethal lies” told by the democratically elected government while allowing other elements to get away with murder,  cannot claim to be balanced, impartial or even honest.