(5 Apr 2008) SHOTLIST
1. Wide buildings UPSOUND: Music
2. Mid of salute of monks against the early morning sun
3. Close up of ceremonial candles on fire and with smoke
4. Wide of stage with monks, candles
5. Wide of monks singing and praying
6. Mid of monks praying with change of focus to the background with people praying
7. Mid of monks praying
8. Close up of face of monk child
9. Wide with change of focus of monks waiting to start collecting money and food
10. Wide shot of area where people are waiting with food and money to give to the monks
11. Various of people waiting with food to give to the monks
12. Close up of Thai girl praying
13. Pan of line of child monks starting to walk to get food and money from the people
14. Mid of monks walking barefoot
15. SOUNDBITE: (English) Mimi Sithanukul, volunteer on the organisation of the Chakri Day in Lumpini Park Thailand:
"To help them. The monks over there (Southern Thailand) they are more in need than the monks in the city. And also for the people in those areas. And this even happened all over the country, not only in Bangkok."
16. Women giving food to a monk
17. Close up with pan from the begging bowl of the monk to women putting food on the bowl
18. Mid of woman giving food to the monks
19. Close up pan of man giving notes of 100 bhats to a monk
20. Wide of area of the ceremony of Chakri day in Lumpini Park
21. Mid of people giving food and money to the monks
22. Pan of monk getting food from different people at the same time
STORYLINE
The yearly commemoration of the Chakri day, which celebrates the founding of the Chakri dynasty by king Rama I, was on Saturday used by monks to gather food and donations for 266 Buddhist monasteries in the south of Thailand as well to help teachers and schools in the area.
More than 1000 monks gathered in the Lumpini Park in central Bangkok to receive donations of food and money from thousands of people that took part in the ceremony.
Mimi Sithanukul, one of the volunteers of the Chakra commemoration in Lumpini Park explained that this year the money and the food will be for the Thailand Monasteries in the South because they are more in need than monks in the city.
''The monks over there (Southern Thailand) they are more in need than the monks in the city. And also for the people in those areas. And this even also happened all over the country not only in Bangkok,'' she said.
Thailand annexed the independent sultanate of Pattani in the early 20th century, and the mostly Muslim region is now divided into three provinces - Pattani, Narathiwat and Yala.
More than 2,800 people have been killed in the three provinces, and some parts of neighbouring Songkhla, since a long-simmering Islamic separatist insurgency flared in January 2004.
Residents have long complained of being treated as second-class citizens in the predominantly Buddhist country.
Past governments have failed to quell the insurgency despite the presence of 40,000 troops and police officers in the region.
Drive-by shootings and bombings occur almost daily in Narathiwat, Yala and Pattani provinces, the only Muslim-majority areas in Thailand.
Most of the violence in the south is blamed on the fight between insurgency and security forces but some non governmental organisations blame the violence on the disputes for the control of the illegal smuggling on the Thai Malaysian border.
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