I haven’t been following the situation in Thailand too closely, but this is certainly a disturbing development. The Associated Press has a man on the ground reporting that three foreign journalists have been shot. One foreign journalist has reportedly been killed.
BANGKOK (AP) — An Associated Press photographer has seen three foreign journalists shot during the army operation in Bangkok, and one of them appears dead.
The photographer saw the three at a hospital Wednesday a few hours after the crackdown began to clear an anti-government protest site in central Bangkok.
He says one of the journalists, who looked Middle Eastern, was shot in the chest. His eyes were rolled back and he showed no signs of life.
He says a Dutch journalist walked into the hospital with a bullet wound in his shoulder. The third journalist is a Westerner in his late 40s who was shot in the leg.
I’ll see if I can find anything else.


by Stephan Tawney on May 19, 2010