CNN iReport

          An astronishing arial footage is captured when the Thai military attempt to contain the Taksin-backed protestors in the street of Bangkok. The video well demonstrated the government's stance on handling the crisis, and the nature of the protestors.

          In the morning of  April 13th, a group of Thai soldiers was confronting the red-shirt protestors on Viphavadi road, a major highway into the city. The event was captured by several university students staying overnight in a high-level floor of their campus building.

NOTE: for a higher-quality video, visit  www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1Ph-Fn_IFs

          Mid-way through the footage, a protestor threw a motolov cocktail at the soldier line, putting a few soldiers partly on fire. "(curse), they've gone too far!", a student exclaimed. The students then noticed there're protesters on the other side of the highway throwing projectiles at the soldiers. All of a sudden, a protestor drove a taxi and accelerated into the thick line of soldiers, ramming several of them - noticably one that is thrown several meters away. While the students made many more curses, the other soldiers tried to take over the taxi. Then, they saw and heard several gunshots and ducked for cover.

          The students mentioned that they believe the soldiers were shooting into the air to scare the protestors off. They concluded this from the fact that they see light flares upward, 'like fireworks'. And after the shooting stopped, they looked again and see just one red-shirt lying injured on the ground, attended to by soldiers. A later TV station reports informs that most soldiers are using blank bullets or paper-head bullets. The students concluded in their report of this incredible footage that the soldiers didn't start the shooting, and there is no person injured from the soldier's machine gun fires in this event.

CONTINUOUS EVENTS AFTER THE FOOTAGE.
          After the shooting stopped, the students came back to observe again. Other than one injured protestor, they saw a public bus stranded onto what was once a wall between the highways. The protestor's front line retracted several hundred meters back. Then the students heard several loud single gunshots that didn't sound like the soldier's automatic M16 fires. A student also see 'ping-pong' bombs, a home-made small explosive, thrown, citing from small sparks thrown by the protestors. M16 shooting sound soon followed, and the students took cover again.

          After it's over, the students came out and see no more rioting. The lines seems to move in the protestor's direction towards the victory monument. They saw continuous line of soldiers walking in that direction, possibly as back-up, as well as a few ambulances driving in the same direction.

CITATION
          This report is translated and re-written by Apinand Dabpeth, citing an anonymous CMMU student's report, who has been notify of this submission to iReport.

The source and many amazing pictures are at
http://tamanxzg.exteen.com/20090413/entry
and  http://tamanxzg.exteen.com/20090413/entry-1
and the video at http://tamanxzg.exteen.com/20090413/entry-2

It is worthy to note that according to the video's Youtube comments, several Thais cried watching this clip.