Urban warfare 2010, Thailand. Fireworks, slingshots and homemade RPGs :
A stunning gallery of weeks of street fighting in Bangkok from Life :
A map of Bangkok's CBD. The green and red highlighted blocks are the areas held for six weeks by Red Shirt protesters, locked in by barricades of tyres and sharpened bamboo poles. The area held by the Red Shirts contained some of Bangkok's most expensive hotels, shops and office suites, nearly all shut down or financially savaged by the protests.
The barricades were crossed today by Thai military and riot police. The weeks of clashes killed more than 60 people, injuring hundreds, ruining tourism to Thailand's capital and costing local businesses hundreds of millions of dollars in lost trade.
Red Shirt protest leaders have now surrendered.
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