Bangkok – Bangkok may have been convulsed with its worst political violence in a generation over the past five days, when 37 died in bloody street fighting, but in much of the capital it is business as usual, albeit with less traffic.
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Until Thursday, when the de-facto military leader of the so-called red shirt rebellion was shot in the head by a sniper, the demonstrations had been confined to the Ratchaprasong commercial district. It existed as a city-within-a-city with its own makeshift restaurants, souvenir vendors, pharmacies, black-shirted police force and even massage parlours.
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An order to shut down government offices this week and delay the reopening of some 400 schools in Bangkok has disrupted the business-as-usual attitude of many Thais outside the red zone.
But within the red zone at Ratchaprasong, life goes on as usual despite the government’s efforts to place a stranglehold on the neighbourhood, which is normally Bangkok’s prime hub for upscale shopping malls and five-star hotels.
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