Not a single live round fired, maybe
April 30, 2009
PPT assumes that The Nation (30 April 2009: “Military insists not a single bullet fired on Songkran Day”) has mis-reported the army. Or was this report wrong? Both can’t be right. And those bullet holes in buses and taxis would need to be explained.
In today’s report, “Maj-General Ong-art Pongsak, deputy commander of the First Army Region, told the panel on laws, justice and human rights that the operation, which had been overseen by an Army general, was merely aimed at dispersing the crowds.” He said that “… some military officers were carrying pistols with live bullets, they were only meant to be used to protect high-ranking commanders overseeing the operation. He added that not a single live bullet was shot that day.”
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