Terrorism in Thailand

Harry and I have been keeping up to date with the current events of Bangkok, Thailand. The day after we left Bangkok...the city was racked with an act of national terrorism. On November 12 the city's famous open air market was targeted in a bombing attack.


Here is an article I found...


Bangkok - A bomb hurled Thursday morning at protestors at Klong Toey Market in Bangkok injured 13 people, two of whom were in critical condition, police said. 'Eyewitnesses said the bomb was thrown by a man on a motorcycle from the bridge that overlooks the market,' said Police Colonel Suthip Palitkusontat, of the Klong Toey Port Police Station. Vendors at the famed open air market - the largest in the capital - have been protesting efforts to evict them by a private company that won a new lease on the area on October 29.

Then today...we woke up to the take over at the Bangkok International Airport.

There are reports of blasts at Bangkok's international airport and grenade attacks elsewhere in the city that have wounded at least seven people as lawlessness spread amid anti-government protests, officials said.

BANGKOK, Thailand — Thailand's main international airport canceled all flights Wednesday as protesters thronged the complex and stormed the control tower in efforts to bring down the government, stranding thousands of tourists and buffeting the country's already-fragile tourism industry.

The demonstrators are now in the control tower, and say airlines must seek their permission to land.

The airport takeover was one of the boldest gambles yet by the People's Alliance for Democracy in its four-month campaign to topple Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat, whom it accuses of being the puppet of a disgraced fugitive predecessor, billionaire Thaksin Shinawatra.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,457156,00.html

Exhausted travelers tried to sleep on suitcases, on luggage carts, on security conveyer belts, behind vacated check-in counters. Protesters dressed in yellow shirts walked around distributing food, ham sandwiches and packets of rice.

So today... our prayers and thoughts are with the Thai people as they deal with the another day of terrorism within their borders.

I cannot get it out of my head that we were just there. I am thankful for God's timing and His guided steps. Harry and I tossed around the dates of our travel and entertained the idea of staying longer in a city we became enthralled with.

Our travels tend to stress out my family.... they never really know where or when we will turn up. So I am thankful we left the day we did. On our honeymoon...there was a horrific accident in a Swiss tunnel...my mom was terrified and we were not even in Switzerland.

Blessings,

Kristie