BANGKOK Three dancers in tasseled bikinis have their boredom lit by neon at the nightclub’s door. It is Saturday night and Bangkok’s infamous Pat Pong district should be crawling with drunk, drooling, and paying customers.
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Businesses are losing millions of dollars each day the Red Shirt protesters occupy much of one of Bangkok’s ritziest streets. Luxury stores and shopping malls have been shuttered for weeks. Escalators to ‘Central World,’ an upscale mall, are motionless and littered with garbage. Flimsy barricades intended to block them are used by protesters to dry their laundry.
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“If wars begin with stereotyping the other side,” writes Tulsathit Taptim, a popular columnist with The Bangkok Post, “we may already have crossed the threshold.”
What is clear since five grenades exploded in central Bangkok is that the mix of anti- and pro-government elements on the streets is volatile. There are also “rogue” fighters commonly referred to as “the terrorists” and there are several theories about who they are and what they represent.
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