(29 Nov 2008) SHOTLIST
Suvarnabhumi International Airport
1. Grounded plane on tarmac
2. Tilt up of PAD (people's Alliance for Democracy) guard with baton
3. Close up masked PAD guard
4. Mid of PAD guard looking through binoculars
5. Tilt up PAD guards with batons
6. Various of PAD supporters in front of stage at departure terminal UPSOUND: Music
7. Various of deserted passport control area
8. Wide of entrance of duty free area with PAD guards sleeping
9. Various of duty free area
10. Wide PAD supporters walking on airport approach road
11. Police waiting
12. Pan left form police to PAD supporters.
13. Police in riot gear
14. Police facing PAD supporters.
15.Tilt with sun behind, with PAD facing police.
16. PAD supporter watching as police walk away
17. More police walking away
18. Masked PAD supporter UPSOUND (Thai : "Fight fight'')
19. PAD supporters letting tyres down on police truck
20. Various, police vehicles with flat tyres
21. Trucks and police vans with flat tyres, pan to vandalised car
22. Plain clothes policeman complaining about damage,
23. Policeman manhandled by PAD supporters.
24. PAD supporter and PAD 'medic', with red cross, trying to bundle policeman into car
25. Scuffle as policeman is forced into car
26. Car, with red cross on bonnet and boot and red flasher on roof, drives off with policeman and PAD supporters
STORYLINE
Anti-government protesters occupying Thailand's international airport seized a police officer on Saturday, escalating tensions in a four-day standoff that appeared headed for a violent confrontation.
The trouble started after about 1,000 demonstrators moved in on a police checkpoint near the Suvarnabhumi international airport, triggering a showdown that ended without violence when officers hastily withdrew.
One policeman remained, however, and was grabbed by protesters, bundled into a car and driven off towards the airport, which has been occupied by protesters of the PAD (people's Alliance for Democracy) since Tuesday..
It was not immediately known if the officer was still being held or why he was held.
PAD supporters seized the Suvarnabhumi airport on Bangkok's outskirts on Tuesday night, and the smaller Don Muang airport in the city on Wednesday, in an unexpected twist to their months-long campaign to oust the government.
The alliance accuses the government of being a puppet of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who was ousted by a 2006 military coup and fled overseas to escape corruption charges. Current Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat is Thaksin's brother-in-law.
The capital remains cut off from all civilian air traffic, stranding thousands of travellers and dealing a severe blow to the Thai economy and
tourist industry.
After nearly four days the situation appeared to be heading toward a confrontation as both protesters and police reinforced their presence at
Suvarnabhumi airport.
Hundreds more protesters arrived at the airport overnight, boosting their number to several thousand, and ambulances lined up in anticipation of raids by police.
Police, many in full riot gear, also had a much more visible presence, guarding an airport hotel and airport management offices, and assembling in a
nearby administrative building. There appeared to be several hundred in the area.
But acting National Chief Gen. Pateep Tanprasert insisted they would do everything they could to avert a crackdown on protesters.
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