A Day of Contrasts

Submitted by Anthony Bouch on 14 April, 2009

Thai Army in Victory Monument, Bangkok, Thailand

April 13th 2009 will be remembered by me as one of the strangest days yet here in Thailand. I think the pictures pretty much tell the story; pictures of the last moments of a running skirmish between Red-shirt protesters and the Thai Army – while at the same time over on Silom Road - Thais were celebrating Songkran with characteristic enthusiasm