Street Fighting Rampant in Bangkok!

The street fighting in Bangkok is intense mostly in small ambushes with some roving bands in pickup trucks prowling and attacking at will with Bangkok police unwilling to risk getting involved and being sniped at as well. This reporter was hit in several different attacks on the first day receiving over 20 hits in less than 2 minutes and then I was hit many more times trying to move out of the heavy fighting centered around the Nana Entertainment Complex where hundreds had been ruthlessly attracted sometimes using ice cold water or Aeriel attacks from places like the cat house bombing unsuspecting tourist in asault waves.

Many have tried to move from one place to another seeing sanctuary from the heavy hail of man made rain and indiscriminate fire with limited results and some times tragic loss of property some where in the thousands of Baht.

This is not the first time that these pitched battles have been waged using weapons cheap in Bangkok and the whole of Thailand. No where is safe as even the provinces are inundated with thousands of heavily armed combatants fighting everyone and anyone with brother on brother, brother on sister and even sons shooting their own mothers! Child fighters as young as 2 and 3 years old can be seen wielding guns bigger than they are with guns being sold on the street for as little as 100 bath around $3 USD



In recent years the fighting as spilled over into Cambodia with the capitol of Phnom Penh and the historic temples of Siem Reap and Angkor Wat sadly the trend there will be fighting every year now with the beach city of Sihanoukville seeing especially heavy fighting right on the main street and in front of the major tourist hotels.



No accurate reports have been put forth by the governments but they expect a cease fire on the 16th of April and they expect that the peace last until next year when the Songkran festival begins again to signal the rainy season and the festivities of Songkran and Khmer New Year spark renewed street fighting.